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English lead-glass flask with applied pincered trailing

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An image of Flask. Unidentified glasshouse, England. The flask is of flattened oval form with a cylindrical neck and inward folded mouth. The lower part is decorated with mould-blown ribbing which has been pincered to form ten oval outlines with pairs of bows (?) at the top. The shoulder has three bands of trailing tooled to form a double chain. Clear lead-glass, mould-blown, with applied pincered trailing, height, 13.6 cm, width, 9 cm, circa 1680-1710. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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Flask. Unidentified glasshouse, England. The flask is of flattened oval form with a cylindrical neck and inward folded mouth. The lower part is decorated with mould-blown ribbing which has been pincered to form ten oval outlines with pairs of bows (?) at the top. The shoulder has three bands of trailing tooled to form a double chain. Clear lead-glass, mould-blown, with applied pincered trailing, height, 13.6 cm, width, 9 cm, circa 1680-1710. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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  • Accession Number: C.171-2015
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: GFX 50S
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 762 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 319.62kB
  • Exposure time: 1/160
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 32/1
  • Captured: 2018:07:03 23:50:35

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17th Century 18th Century _WF_ArtFund _WF_Batchelor Baroque blown glass clear glass English Fitz_AA flask glass glassware mould blown glass pincered slipware trailed trailing

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