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Goblet

Goblet

  • Place of origin:

    Venice, Italy (made)

  • Date:

    ca. 1903 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Venice & Murano Glass & Mosaic Co. Ltd (manufacturer)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Enamelled glass

  • Museum number:

    531-1903

  • Gallery location:

    Glass, room 131, case 28, shelf 1

  • Image in copyright

In the late 19th century and early 20th, several Venetian glass workshops and factories specialised in the production of handmade glass in the 'traditional Venetian style'. In some cases they copied existing historic examples very closely. Sometimes their work was so successful that it was soon being sold in antiques markets. This goblet was closely copied from a fragmentary beaker that came to light when the campanile, or bell-tower, in St Mark's Square in Venice collapsed in 1902. This copy was made in the following year by 'The Venice and Murano Glass Company Ltd' with the intention to supply it to ‘Museums, Collectors and others wishing to posses an interesting relic of the Campanile of St Mark’. It was indeed bought by the V&A in 1903 for that very reason.

Place of Origin

Venice, Italy (made)

Date

ca. 1903 (made)

Artist/maker

Venice & Murano Glass & Mosaic Co. Ltd (manufacturer)

Materials and Techniques

Enamelled glass

Dimensions

Height: 14.0 cm, Width: 10.0 cm maximum

Descriptive line

Goblet, Italy (Venice), made by The Venice and Murano Glass Co. Ltd., 1903-1903, 531-1903 .

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Gasparetto, A., Il vetro di Murano, 1958, fig. 40

Labels and date

This so called 'Campanile cup' is a copy of an early 16th-century glass, of which fragments were recovered in the ruins of the St. Marco Campanile in Venice in 1902.

Categories

Glass; Drinking

Collection code

CER

Qr_O1311
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