Covered Beaker with Raised Square Pyramids and Incised Oval Design
This beaker was probably intended to imitate earlier 17th-century glass works, which used gold to make a luminous red. The red color of this work was achieved with copper instead of gold. Copper-red glass is so dark that it appears almost black. To achieve transparency, copper...
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11019
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object
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normalized
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George Harding; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1916; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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en
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2
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