Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Glass, Room 131

Goblet

1550 - 1600 (made)
Place of origin

Goblet, blown filigree glass, probably Netherlands (possibly Antwerp or Middelburg), 1550-1600


Object details

Object type
Materials and techniques
filigree glass (a fili and a retorti), mould-blown
Brief description
Goblet, blown filigree glass, probably Netherlands (possibly Antwerp or Middelburg), 1550-1600
Dimensions
  • Height: 20.3cm
  • Greatest width width: 12.5cm
Styles
Gallery label
In 1583/84 glasses like this were made at a the short-lived glasshouse in Hessen-Kassel (Germany), by glasblowers from Antwerp and Middelburg.
Credit line
W. H. Cope Bequest
Production
analysed: similar to Venetian Verita but higher potassium.
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 Kassel on the basis of pattern and glass-colour.
Bibliographic reference
F.-A. Dreier, Glaskunst in Hessen-Kassel, 1969, no. 9: same mould, form and cane-formation in piece from the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel, datable 1583-84. In the glashouse in Kassel there were some glasblowers that also worked at Antwerp and Middelburg. Fragments related to this piece found in Middelburg. Other examples attributable to Southern Netherlands. The glasshouse in Kassel only worked for a very short time. Can't have been a big production.
Other number
8398 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Accession number
572-1903

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
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