English lead-glass jar

An image of Jar. Unidentified English glasshouse. The jars stands on a circular foot with ten pincered arcs of irregular size round the edge, and a pontil mark in the centre. The body is of narrow thistle-shape. It has a second gather round the base moulded with wrythen gadrooning. Round the middle there are three trailed bands pinched to create a chain with four links. Below the rim there are three trailed bands. Lead-glass, blown, with a second gather round lower part moulded, and trailed and pincered decoration, height, whole, 13.2 cm, diameter, rim, 8.5 cm, diameter, foot, 8 cm, circa 1720. Baroque. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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Jar. Unidentified English glasshouse. The jars stands on a circular foot with ten pincered arcs of irregular size round the edge, and a pontil mark in the centre. The body is of narrow thistle-shape. It has a second gather round the base moulded with wrythen gadrooning. Round the middle there are three trailed bands pinched to create a chain with four links. Below the rim there are three trailed bands. Lead-glass, blown, with a second gather round lower part moulded, and trailed and pincered decoration, height, whole, 13.2 cm, diameter, rim, 8.5 cm, diameter, foot, 8 cm, circa 1720. Baroque. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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Accession Number: C.178-2015
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: 755 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 371.72kB
Exposure time: 1/80
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2018:07:02 01:33:46

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18th Century _WF_ArtFund _WF_Batchelor Baroque blown glass clear glass English Fitz_AA flowers Georgian glass glassware jar lead glass pincered slipware thistle thistle shaped trailed trailing

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