Spanish glass mug with a spirally trailed thread

An image of Continental glass. Mug. Unknown glasshouse, Spain, Granada. The foot is dimpled and has a central kick. The sides are lightly fluted on the lower part and have a spirally trailed thread applied to the upper part. The ribbon handle is wider at the top than at the lower end which has a kick pressed back to the handle. Transparent bubbly bluish-green glass, blown. Height, whole, 8.6 cm, width, whole, 10 cm, diameter, rim, 7 cm, circa 1700-1725. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Continental glass. Mug. Unknown glasshouse, Spain, Granada. The foot is dimpled and has a central kick. The sides are lightly fluted on the lower part and have a spirally trailed thread applied to the upper part. The ribbon handle is wider at the top than at the lower end which has a kick pressed back to the handle. Transparent bubbly bluish-green glass, blown. Height, whole, 8.6 cm, width, whole, 10 cm, diameter, rim, 7 cm, circa 1700-1725. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

Image data

Accession Number: C.209-2015
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: 890 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 414.37kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2018:07:24 22:39:11

Key words

18th Century _WF_ArtFund _WF_Batchelor blown glass blue continental glass drinking vessel European Fitz_AA glass glassware green handle handled mugs slipware Spanish spirally spirals trailed trailing trails vessel

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025)
            "Spanish glass mug with a spirally trailed thread"
            Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-211193 Accessed: 2025-12-05 17:02:20

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-211193
            |title=Spanish glass mug with a spirally trailed thread
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-05 17:02:20|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/images/media-211190

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/C_209_2015_1_201807_kly25_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Mug"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Spanish glass mug with a spirally trailed thread</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>