Glass and Hardstone
5 objects
Things made by working a material while it is hot, or by cutting one that never was. The two sit together here because both are read the same way in the hand: against the light, for what the wall of the vessel does to it.
Glass · 17th–18th century · 01-01
Glass · 17th century · 91.1.1222
Jasper, silver gilt · mid-17th century · 17.190.597
Smoky rock crystal, enamel, gold, diamonds · ca. 1680 and early 19th century · 01-04
Russian malachite, gilt-bronze mounts, bronze pedestal · 1819 · 01-05