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Flute glass
Dutch
about 1660
Medium/Technique
Glass, with wheel-engraved decoration
Dimensions
Height: 37.3 cm (14 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Russell B. and Andrée Beauchamp Stearns Fund, Dorothy-Lee Jones Fund and by exchange from a Gift of Mrs. Albertine W. F. Valentine, residuary legatee under the will of Hervey Edward Wetzel
Accession Number2005.533
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CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsGlass
DescriptionA flute with a slender funnel bowl on a hollow inverted baluster stem set between collars on a folded conical foot. The bowl has a wheel-engraved decoration of a band of fruiting vine below which, on one side, a putto spins a peg-top on his finger, the reverse showing another putto wearing a rabbit skin and relieving himself.
Provenance2005, Mallett and Son, Ltd., London and New York; 2005, sold by Mallett to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 12, 2005)