SPANISH GLASS CANTIR with CORDED WHITE CANES

44E Spanish Cantir with Corded White Canes from Catalonia

of the Allaire glass collection

44E Spanish Cantir

Description: Cantir of yellowish glass decorated with opaque white cord trails called canna a fili. Glassmakers in Catalonia, Spain were producing decoration of this type in the middle of the 16^th into the 17^th century

Date: Second half of 16^th through 17^th century. . Size: Height: 19.5 cm Weight: 139 g

Remarks: The trails used for this type of decoration are called corded white canes which is a single opaque white thread of glass surrounded by clear colorless glass. During this period of glass making the canes were either marvered flush with the body or left in relief called cords.

Below are other examples of the corded canes decoration on Spanish glass from the book, Fragil Transparencia Vidrios espanoles de los siglos XVI a XVIII, by Jean-Paul Philippart 2011. Click on the pictures to enlarge them and the X in the right hand corner to come back to this page.

 

Sanctuary Lamp 16th century

The corded canes and prunt on this sanctuary lamp

A footed bowl with handles.

A bucket bowl with handle.

Pitcher

Almorratxa, vessel for sprinkling rose-water,late16th C.