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Goblet

1500-1550 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Venice (made)

Goblet, blown, clear colourless and blue glass with enamelled and gilt decoration, probably Italy (Venice), 1500-50

Object details

Category
Glass
Object type
Goblet
Materials and techniques
Glass, enamelled and gilt
Glass
Gilding
Enamelling
Brief description
Goblet, blown, clear colourless and blue glass with enamelled and gilt decoration, probably Italy (Venice), 1500-50
Dimensions
  • Height: 27.0cm
conversion size only
Style
ITALY
Gallery label
Found in Spain but probably of Venetian manufacture
(2008)
GOBLET
About 1500-1550

This small drinking vessel was found in Spain but was probably made in Venice. It is decorated using techniques of both gilding and enamelling which would have made it a very desirable object in the Sixteenth Century.

Italy, Venice

Glass, painted with gilding and enamels

Museum no.135-1873
Object history
Purchased through J.F. Riaño, from the Don Bonifacio Riaño Collection
Bibliographic reference
Honey p.61
Other number
8345 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
135-1873

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O264/goblet-unknown/
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