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Drinking Vessel

1575-1610 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Antwerp (city) (made)

Vessel in the form of a fish, made of filigree glass.

Object details

Category
Glass
Object type
Drinking vessel
Materials and techniques
Filigree glass (a fili and a retorti), with applied and tooled decoration
Brief description
'Grotesque' vessel in filigree glass, probably the Nethelands (Antwerp), 1575-1610
Physical description
Vessel in the form of a fish, made of filigree glass.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.0cm
  • Maximum width: 18.0cm
Styles
European
FACON DE VENISE
Gallery label
Vessel in the form of a fish. Stem and foot are missing.
Object history
from the Bernal Collection, bought for 7l. 5s.
Subject depicted
Fish
Bibliographic references
  • A.Baar 1938, nr. 52 & 51
  • See Ceramics & Glass Dept Object Information File
  • Bernal Sale catalogue 1862, cat. 2959, p. 302, illustration opposite p. 308
  • Illustrated in A. Nesbitt, A descriptive catalogue of the glass vessels in the South Kensington Museum, London 1878 p. 64, and Plate XIII
Other number
8453 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
1861-1855

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O467/drinking-vessel-unknown/
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