Goblet
17th century (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
The glassmakers of the Venetian island of Murano excelled in making thinly blown and elegantly shaped objects in the finest colourless glass. They were renowned for their skills as well as their fanciful designs. The bowl of this glass was made in the 'ice-glass' technique. This involved plunging a hot glass bubble into a bucket of cold water, causing cracks to form on its surface. These cracks would be visually enlarged by reheating and repeating the process and by further expanding the bubble by blowing. Inside, attached to the bottom of the bowl, is a hollow egg-shaped piece of blue glass, which colours the contents when the glass is full.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Ice glass, with applied blue glass decoration |
| Brief description | Goblet, blown ice-glass, probably Italy (Venice), 1600-1700 |
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| Style | |
| Credit line | W. H. Cope Bequest |
| Production | Cf. piece with identical shape but not in ice-glass in Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (Coburg cat.1994, Abb. 64, p. 293) |
| Summary | The glassmakers of the Venetian island of Murano excelled in making thinly blown and elegantly shaped objects in the finest colourless glass. They were renowned for their skills as well as their fanciful designs. The bowl of this glass was made in the 'ice-glass' technique. This involved plunging a hot glass bubble into a bucket of cold water, causing cracks to form on its surface. These cracks would be visually enlarged by reheating and repeating the process and by further expanding the bubble by blowing. Inside, attached to the bottom of the bowl, is a hollow egg-shaped piece of blue glass, which colours the contents when the glass is full. |
| Other number | 8421 - Glass gallery number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 566-1903 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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