drinking-glass
- Museum number
- 2014,8024.194.a-g
- Description
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Set of seven 'Petri' drinking-glasses, clear glass, mould-blown in three stages, each with a straight-sided bowl, a short stem with a spherical knop and a wide flat foot.
- Production date
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1964-1971
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1963 (designed)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 5.70 centimetres (a)
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Diameter: 5 centimetres (b)
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Diameter: 4.30 centimetres (c)
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Diameter: 7.50 centimetres (d)
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Diameter: 5.50 centimetres (e)
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Diameter: 4.80 centimetres (f)
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Diameter: 10 centimetres (g)
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Height: 21.20 centimetres (a)
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Height: 20 centimetres (b)
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Height: 15 centimetres (c)
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Height: 13.80 centimetres (d)
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Height: 11.50 centimetres (e)
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Height: 9.70 centimetres (f)
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Height: 10 centimetres (g)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This range of glassware was known as 'Petri', model no. 2151. Ten different glasses were produced in total, all intended for different drinks, of which seven are shown here. Images and references to this design can be found in the following publications:
Finnish Glass Museum, ‘Oiva Toikka Glass’, Vammalen Kirjapaino Oy for the Finnish Glass Museum, 1988, cat. no. 3, p. 70.
M. Aav et al., ‘Oiva Toikka Moments of Ingenuity’, Design Museum, Helsinki, 2010, cat no. 3, p. 132.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Acquisition notes
- The donors purchased one of these glasses from Kruuna, Helsinki, on 17 August 2011.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2014,8024.194.a-g