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Goblet
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Goblet
- Place of origin:
Venice, Italy (made)
- Date:
17th century (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown (production)
- Materials and Techniques:
Glass
- Museum number:
85-1853
- Gallery location:
Glass, room 131, case 42, shelf 4
The glassmakers of the Venetian island of Murano excelled in making thinly blown and elegantly shaped objects in the finest colourless glass. This wineglass is so thin it looks almost weightless. The octagonal-shaped and strongly everted, or turned out, rim makes this glass extremely impractical to use. This might well have been the main reason why this fragile piece has survived for more than three centuries.
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