Netherlandish glass beaker

An image of Beaker. Façon de Venise. Unknown glasshouse, Southern Netherlands. Cylindrical with a shallow kick. Clear glass with applied opaque white, blue, and red threads spirally twisted, and milled lower edge. Height, whole, 16.5 cm, diameter, whole, 5.5 cm, after 1600 to before 1699. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest.

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Beaker. Façon de Venise. Unknown glasshouse, Southern Netherlands. Cylindrical with a shallow kick. Clear glass with applied opaque white, blue, and red threads spirally twisted, and milled lower edge. Height, whole, 16.5 cm, diameter, whole, 5.5 cm, after 1600 to before 1699. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest.

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Accession Number: C.199-2015
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/26.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: GFX 50S
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 430.21kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 26/1
Captured: 2018:09:13 03:13:58

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17th Century _WF_Batchelor beaker clear glass continental glass cylindrical European facon de Venise Fitz_AA glass glassware glassworking milled milling Netherlandish spirally spirals vessel

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