Venetian wine glass with winged stem

An image of Wine Glass. Unknown production, probably Venice. Approximately a bucket-shaped bowl with ribbed base. A double fillet at the mid-way point. Stem with fine small knops, spinal ribbing and tapering towards a plain foot. Blue wings with colourless denticulations. Crizzling. Lead-glass, blown bowl, ribbed lower part of bowl and stem spine, height, whole, 6 1/4 in, diameter, whole, 3 1/4 in, circa 1600-1650. Façon de Venise. Venetian.

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Wine Glass. Unknown production, probably Venice. Approximately a bucket-shaped bowl with ribbed base. A double fillet at the mid-way point. Stem with fine small knops, spinal ribbing and tapering towards a plain foot. Blue wings with colourless denticulations. Crizzling. Lead-glass, blown bowl, ribbed lower part of bowl and stem spine, height, whole, 6 1/4 in, diameter, whole, 3 1/4 in, circa 1600-1650. Façon de Venise. Venetian.

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Accession Number: MAR.C.124-1912
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 357.09kB
Exposure time: 1/45
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1

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17th Century blown glass blue clear colour coloured crizzled drinking vessel Fitz_AA glass glassware Italian knop lead glass ornate ribbed ribbing stem stemmed Venetian School vessel wine glass wine vessel winged wings

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