Vase
1570-1590 (made)
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| Place of origin |
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.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Blue glass, diamond-engraved, painted in unfired colours and gilt |
| Brief description | Vase, blue glass, diamond-point engraved, Austria (Innsbruck) or Italy (Venice), 1570-1590 |
| Physical description | Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology |
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| Credit line | Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street |
| Production | 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. |
| Summary | 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. |
| Bibliographic reference | Theuerkauff, Coburg, p. 242 |
| Other number | 8470 - Glass gallery number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 5326-1901 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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