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- not comparableOrnamented with prunts.
a prunted vase
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This ornate wine glass, or roemer — with a hollow, prunted stem — bears an enameled scene of Mercury's rescue of the infant Bacchus. This type of prunted roemer was especially popular among Dutch glassmakers around 1690.
1959, The Glass Industry, volumes 40-41, page 106G. D. Weinberg argues that glass beakers with prunted decoration, optic-blown glass beakers, and simple mold-blown glass beakers were being produced in Corinth in the first half of the 12th century (Fig. 25.6).
2003, Charles K. Williams, Nancy Bookidis, Corinth, the Centenary, 1896-1996, ASCSA, →ISBN, page 430A type of beaker more commonly found in the Latin East is the prunted beaker, a beaker with small protrusions of glass (prunts) attached to its exterior (Photo 7.4).
2016, Adrian Boas, Crusader Archaeology: The Material Culture of the Latin East, Routledge, →ISBNThereafter, it passed into the repertoire of the transalpine glasshouses and inspired the creation of the typical prunted roemer of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
2017, David F Grose, The Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval Glass from Cosa, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 208
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