New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Facon-De-Venise Beaker

CultureNetherlandish

Datelate 16th - early 17th century

MediumBlown glass

DimensionsOverall: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
Overall, Rim: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
Base: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Wunsch Foundation

Object number97.5

Not on view

Label TextFACON-DE-VENICE BEAKER South Netherlands Late 16th- early 17th Century Blown glass with opaque white filigree arranged vetro a fili, with hot applied milled foot. Gift of the Wunsch Foundation 97.5 Glass beakers with flaring roms had been popular throughout much of Europe in the late middle ages. This beaker was decorated in the newly fashionable Venetian manner. Dutch still life and genre paintings show that such beakers were generally used for beer.