Goblet Bowl

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Object Name: 
Goblet Bowl
Place Made: 
possibly Netherlands
probably Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
79.3.223
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 12.1 cm, D: 5.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1500-1699
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Goblet Bowl. Colorless, opaque white. Vetro a fili; applied. Goblet bowl. Nearly cylindrical bowl with fire-polished rim, attached by merese to blown knop; foot missing. Bowl is decorated, around base, with applied band of colorless glass that is notched, and, around half-height, with compound band consisting of central twisted opaque white thread between two single, narrow white ribbons. Fourteen opaque white ribbons run vertically from below horizontal thread, under applied band, across base toward merese. Merese is made of colorless glass; knop is made of vetro a fili canes.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
1979
Color: 
colorless
opaque white glass
Technique: 
vetro a fili
applied decoration
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619