Goblet (called "Serpent Glass")

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Goblet (called "Serpent Glass")

c. 1660-1685

Artist/maker unknown, Southern Netherlandish? or German

In the sixteenth century, Venetian glass was the most admired, and most technically advanced, glass in Europe. Despite attempts by the Venetian government to conceal its glassmaking methods, the techniques were smuggled out by workers who left Venice to work in northern Europe. Glasses like this one--made in the late seventeenth century in the Venetian style, but not in a Venetian glasshouse--are known as façon de Venise.

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Object Details

Title:

Goblet (called "Serpent Glass")

Date:

c. 1660-1685

Artist:

Artist/maker unknown, Southern Netherlandish? or German

Medium:

Soda-lime glass with applied glass decoration; cane stem with white glass threads

Dimensions:

Height: 12 1/4 inches (31.1 cm)

Classification:

Containers

Credit Line:

The George H. Lorimer Collection, 1938

Accession Number:

1938-23-64

Geography:

Probably made in southern Netherlandish, Netherlands, Europe or Germany, Europe

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