trick glass
Object NameTrick Glass
Maker
Erède Dott. A. Salviati & C.
Made FromGlass
Date1600-1675
Place MadeItaly, Venice
TechniqueBlown, applied, tooled , mold-blown
SizeOverall H: 35.3 cm; Body Diam: 7.6 cm; Foot Diam: 10.2 cm
Accession Number60.3.84
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionTrick Glass. Colorless, with yellowish tinge; translucent turquiose blue. Blown, mold-blown; applied, tooled. Elephant “prunts” attached to central bulges of body: two of colorless glass, connecting two upper bulges, and two others in turquoise blue glass, which also connect two upper bulges but extend toward lower bulge and terminate at spherical body. At that location, there is crimped band, also in turquoise blue glass; turquoise blue glass thread, applied to rim and wound spirally around mouth, partly sinks into matrix.Provenance
Source
A. Nijstad
- 1960
Former Collection
Bodenheim Collection
