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Object Name:

Beaker

Place Made:

probably France

Accession Number:

72.3.52

Dimensions:

Overall H: 14.8 cm; Rim Diam: 11 cm; Foot Diam: 9.9 cm

Location:

On Display

Date:

1500-1525

Primary Description:

Colorless glass with greyish tint, mold-blown, enameled. Conical bowl with twelve ribs a mezza stampaura on the lower half. Attached blown pedestal foot with infolded rim and pontil mark in the center. Some bubbles trapped between base of bowl and top of foot. Enameled decoration: Below rim, inscription band in capitals, framed by dots, all in white enamel: “POVRMOSVRLELEOTENA[N]TRENALDI” (pour mo[n]s[ie]ur le leotena[n]t Renaldi); below, enameled in white with contours in dark brown, on opposite sides two rampant dogs, with a stag inbetween; opposite stag, a bird, enameled in white with aqua blue wing and eye. Upper ends of ribs enameled in white.

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Department:

Early Modern

Provenance:

Vecht, A., Source

1972

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Inscription:

POVRMOSVRLELEO TENA TRENALDI

Inscription

Exhibitions (2)

Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants

Venue(s)

Corning Museum of Glass

Changing Exhibitions Gallery

Beyond Venice: Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750

Venue(s)

Corning Museum of Glass 2004-05-13 through 2004-10-17

Publications (6)

Émailler le verre à la Renaissance : sur les traces des artistes verriers entre Venise et France (2021) illustrated, pp. 178, 184, fig. 3;

The Yearning for Venetian Glass: Beauty that Traversed Oceans and Time (2011) illustrated, p. 14, fig. 9;

Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants (2010) illustrated, pp. 254-255, #128; BIB# 115588

Beyond Venice: Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750 (2004) illustrated, p. 172, no. 5; BIB# 79761

French Enameled Glass of the Renaissance (1991) illustrated, pp. 53-54, fig. 12;

Recent Important Acquisitions, 15 (1973) illustrated, pp. 190-191, #23; BIB# AI91004