Possibly a Reliquary Goblet

Object Name: 
Possibly a Reliquary Goblet

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Object Name: 
Possibly a Reliquary Goblet
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
54.3.15
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 16 cm; Rim Diam: 5.8 cm; Foot Diam: 8.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1575-1625
Primary Description: 
Possibly a Reliquary Goblet. Colorless, translucent blue. Blown; applied, tooled. Goblet. Cylindrical bowl, with pair of small loop handles attached, atop stemmed disk, mold-blown knob, short capstan-shaped stem, and wide, shallow, blown foot with infolded rim and pontil mark. Six prunts of alternately colorless and blue glass are applied to bottom of bowl, and three similar prunts of blue glass are applied to knob of stem.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Komor, Mathias, Source
1954
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
tooling
Material: 
glass

Publications (5)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 50; BIB# 149619
Glass Through The Ages (Rev. Ed.) (1969) illustrated, pl. 25d;
Treasures in Glass (1966) illustrated, pp. 26, 28, #35; BIB# 28036
Glass Through the Ages (Revised) (1959) illustrated, pl. 25d; BIB# 65361
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass (1958) illustrated, pp. 98-99, no. 107; BIB# 63296