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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

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Manufacturer Unknown
CulturePortugese
Dateca. 1920
MediumBlown glass | Metal
DimensionsOverall: 16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm)
Overall, Rim: 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)
Base: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number0.962
Not on view
DescriptionBlown, colorless, slightly flaring to scalloped gilded rim, engraved and heavily gilded, 5 floral design connected with simulated swags and latice, gilded floral on bottom. Frame gilded metal, narrow lattice bottom, 4 feet with 4 spokes from bottom band hooking over rim.

Published ReferencesDesign similar to late 18th century Spanish glass ilustrated 86A _Spanish Glass_ by Alice Wilson Frothingham.
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
ca. 1893
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
1894
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
ca. 1750
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
ca. 1750
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Sony a7R II 2022.
late 19th – early 20th c.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Sony a7R II 2021.
late 19th-early 20th c.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
ca. 1760
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Sony a7R II 2021.
late 19th - early 20th c.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Cristallerie d'Émile Gallé
ca. 1873
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
ca. 1700-1750
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Sony a7R II 2021.
late 19th early 20th c