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Vase

Vase

  • Place of origin:

    Innsbruck, Austria (made)

  • Date:

    1570-1590 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Blue glass, diamond-engraved, painted in unfired colours and gilt

  • Credit Line:

    Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street

  • Museum number:

    5326-1901

  • Gallery location:

    Glass, room 131, case 10, shelf 2

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By the 15th century, the glassmakers of Venice had earned a worldwide reputation for their high-quality glassware. The Venice guild of glassmakers tried to protect their monopoly by preventing glassmakers from working abroad. From the mid 16th-century onwards, however, some glassmakers managed settle in foreign countries, lured away by high financial incentives. One of the first of such glasshouses was set up at the court in Innsbruck in Austria. Its products can hardly be distinguished from Venetian ones.

Physical description

Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology

Place of Origin

Innsbruck, Austria (made)

Date

1570-1590 (made)

Artist/maker

Unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Blue glass, diamond-engraved, painted in unfired colours and gilt

Dimensions

Height: 18.5 cm, Width: 16.5 cm maximum

Descriptive line

Vase, Austria (Innsbruck) or Italy (Venice), , 1570-1590, 5326-1901 .

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

Theuerkauff, Coburg, p. 242

Production Note

Dieter Schaich (Munich) and Erwin Baumgartner (Basel) saw this piece on 8/9/2003 during the AIHV conference in London and believed this to be made in Insbruck, certainly not in Hall-in-the-Tyrol. The piece from Hall are usually more course, less refined than the ones from Innsbruck.

Categories

Containers; Glass

Collection code

CER

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