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|Collection:||Applied Art - Glass|
|Date:||1719 - 1719|
This German beaker has been free blown, air was blown down a metal tube that had a blob of glass at its end to create a bubble. This bubble of glass would then have been then manipulated using a variety of tools to create the cylindrical shape. The details of the painted decoration on this beaker would have been scratched out with a needle.
|Purchased from the VandA, with monies from the Industrial Art Museum Fund, 1872.|
|Production Period:||18th Century|
|Medium:||Clear white glass with painted decoration.|
|Place of Origin:||Germany|