New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Ringelbecher

DateSecond half 17th century

MediumBlown glass

DimensionsOverall: 7 x 3 3/4 in. (17.8 x 9.5 cm)

ClassificationsGlass

Credit LineGift of the Wunsch Foundation

Object number2000.18.3

Terms

Non-representational
Brown

On View

On view

DescriptionThis is a ring beaker of blown, dark amber or brown glass, with numerous hot applications. Conical bowl reinforced by half-post method with "lily pad" like gather, trailed milled decoration would around its lower two-thirds, and three vertical loops on its sides (for rings), bowl mounted on high conical wound foot. The base of the bowl has a second gather, which was pinched to form gadrooning and is mounted on a flaring wound foot.