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Goblet Vase

Goblet Vase

 
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Object Name: 
Goblet Vase
Department
European
Category
Renaissance
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice, probably, or Low Countries
Date: 
1570-1630
Color
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colorless
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watermarks
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opaque white glass
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colorless
Technique
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blow molding
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tooling
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glassblowing
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20.1 cm, Diam (max): 13.5 cm; Rim Diam: 7 cm; Foot Diam: 8 cm
Accession Number: 
53.3.39
Location: 
On Display
Description
Goblet vase. Colorless, with opaque white filigrana ribbons. Blown, mold-blown; tooled. Almost spherical bowl with slightly flaring, fire-polished rim, supported by five knobbed stem that ends at top and bottom in colorless glue-bit; conical, flaring foot with rim strengthened by applied ribbon of colorless glass. Bowl is decorated with opaque white vetro a fili canes and mold-blown with frieze depicting two pairs of lions between bands, flanking undecorated cartouche. Stem and foot are made of opaque white vetro a retorti canes with vertical filigrana ribbons; at stem, vertical ribbons alternate with groups of three threads, slightly swirling at knobs; at foot, swirling ribbons alternate with bands of crossed threads. Top and bottom parts of bowl are gadrooned.
Provenance
Arthur Churchill (Glass) Ltd., Source to 1953
The Triumph of humanism: a visual survey of the decorative arts of the Renassaince
Venue(s)
California Palace of Legion of Honor 1977-10-22 through 1978-01-08
Islam and the Medieval West
Venue(s)
University Art Museum, Binghamton 1975 through 1975
 
Il Vetro Veneziano (1982) illustrated, p. 98, fig. 87; BIB# 30775
The Triumph of Humanism (1977) p. 90, #199; BIB# 21145
Islam and the Medieval West (1975) illustrated, no. G32; BIB# 18974
Glass Through The Ages (Rev. Ed.) (1969) illustrated, pl. 24d;
Glass Through the Ages (Revised) (1959) illustrated, pl. 24d; BIB# 65361
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass (1958) illustrated, #69; BIB# 63296
Glass Through the Ages (1st Ed.) (1948) illustrated, p. 75 and pl. 16d; BIB# 18668

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