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Drinking Horn (Rhyton)

Date Late 1st to early 2nd century A.D.
Dimensions H. 21 cm, D. (mouth) 10.2 cm
Collection Link https://glasscollection.cmog.org/objects/15573
Accession Number 87.1.2 (CMOG)
Credit The Corning Museum of Glass (Cat. 184), gift of Gawain, McKinley.
Video Type short

The technique of conjoining two bubbles of molten glass is used to make a compound object: a playful drinking glass called a rhyton. The video shows how the blowpipe used to make the foot is, toward the end of the process, also employed effectively as a punty, or handle, while the vessel’s rim is being created.

Video 52 The technique of conjoining two bubbles of molten glass is used to make a compound object: a playful drinking glass called a rhyton. The video shows how the blowpipe used to make the foot is, toward the end of the process, also employed effectively as a punty, or handle, while the vessel’s rim is being created.
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Video 52 The technique of conjoining two bubbles of molten glass is used to make a compound object: a playful drinking glass called a rhyton. The video shows how the blowpipe used to make the foot is, toward the end of the process, also employed effectively as a punty, or handle, while the vessel’s rim is being created.
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