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Drinking Glass

1602 (dated)
Place of origin
Netherlands (made)

When this glass was acquired by the Museum in 1925, the name Barbara Potters was understood to be English and the glass was attributed to the London Glasshouse of Jerome Bowes (d. 1616). However, the name Barbara Potters is also a Dutch name, and comparable glasses discovered since, point at a firm attribution to the Southern Netherlands, probably Antwerp.

Object details

Categories
Glass
Drinking
Object type
Drinking glass
Materials and techniques
Blown glass, mould-blown stem, diamond-point engraved, with traces of gilt
Glass
Blown
Brief description
Drinking glass, diamond-point engraved with inscription 'BARBARA POTTERS', with traces of gilding, Netherlands, dated 1602
Physical description
Drinking glass on a tall mould-blown stem, diamond-point engraved with inscription 'BARBARA POTTERS', with traces of gilding, Netherlands, dated 1602
Dimensions
  • Height: 20.5cm
  • Maximum width: 8.5cm
conversion size only
Styles
Europe
FACON DE VENISE
Marks and inscriptions
'BARBARA POTTERS 1602'

Note
decoration
Credit line
Given by C. Rees-Price, Esq. and Mrs Jeanie H. R. Price.
Production
A glass in the Musée de la Chartreuse in Douai, dated 1608 is very close in engraving style and probably by the same hand. It is a typically Southern Netherlandish glass with applied masks and prunts with turquois beads with an inscription in French.
Cf. a fragment with a Dutch adage engraved by the same hand was excavated at the 'Cour Napoléon" at the Louvre in Paris. (G. Barrera in Annales du 12e congres AIHV, Vienna 1991, p. 373, fig. 2) A Dutch attribution was first given to the Barbara Potters glass by FGAM Smit in his Line-engraved glass, Peterborough 1994, p. 1. Apart from the excavated example, Smits points out that Barbara Potters(dochter) is Dutch name. The glass was prevously thought to be English.
Summary
When this glass was acquired by the Museum in 1925, the name Barbara Potters was understood to be English and the glass was attributed to the London Glasshouse of Jerome Bowes (d. 1616). However, the name Barbara Potters is also a Dutch name, and comparable glasses discovered since, point at a firm attribution to the Southern Netherlands, probably Antwerp.
Bibliographic references
  • cf. B. Rackham, Burlington Magazine, Oct.1925 Hartshorne, Old English Glasses, p.164 E. S. godfrey, The Development of English Glassmaking, Oxford 1975 Bulletin de l'Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre, No.8 1977-80 p.85; Charleston, English Glass, 1984, plate 14d, pp. 62-63
  • A Dutch attribution was first given to the Barbara Potters glass by FGAM Smit in his Line-engraved glass, Peterborough 1994, p. 1. Smits points out that Barbara Potters(dochter) could also be a normal Dutch name.
  • Cf. a fragment with a Dutch adage engraved by the same hand was excavated at the 'Cour Napoléon" at the Louvre in Paris. (G. Barrera in Annales du 12e congres AIHV, Vienna 1991, p. 373, fig. 2)
  • A glass in the Musée de la Chartreuse in Douai, dated 1608 is very close in engraving style and probably by the same hand. It is a typically Southern Netherlandish glass with applied masks and prunts with turquois beads with an inscription in French.
  • Marc Mees en Gilbert Huyben, 'Nederlandse klanken in Parijs anno 1600: Een Nederlandstalig liedfragment op een façon-de-venise glas gevonden onder de Cour Napoléon van het Louvre', in: Relicta 10 (2013)' pp. 259-260, 264, fig 19 our glass discussed and attributed to the same engraver as a beaker in Douai and a fragmentary glass excavated at the Cour du Louvre in Paris.
Other number
6582 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.575-1925

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
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