Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2012.

Serpent-Stemmed Façon De Venise Goblet

Artist Unknown

CultureLow Countries | Germany

Dateca. 17th - early 18th century

MediumBlown and applied glass

Dimensions14 7/8 × 4 × 3 3/8 in. (37.8 × 10.2 × 8.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Glass Purchase Fund

Object number2000.9.2A

Collections

Glass Art

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-2, Case 12

DescriptionThis is a colorless, transparent turquoise, and opaque white glass, blown, trailed, and pincered. The large ovoid bowl is supported on a three-part stem. The center section consists of an elaborately coiled two-headed serpent with trailed and pincered turquoise jaws, combs, and fins (with a waffle pattern), the body in a pretzel-like shape formed with a continuous glass rod enclosing opaque-white filigree with a hint of pale turquoise. The high domed cover (2000.9.2B) has a knopped finial.

Provenance"Undisclosed private collection" prior to Christie's London (An Important Collection of Venetian and Façon de Venise Glass, March 28, 2000, Lot 161); Purchased by Chrysler Museum of Art with funds from the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Art Purchase Fund, 2000. Published ReferencesHugh Tait. THE GOLDEN AGE OF VENETIAN GLASS. London: The British Museum. 1979: pp. 85-89. Robert J. Charleston. MASTERPIECES OF GLASS: A WORLD HISTORY FROM THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1980: 124-125, fig. 54. Dwight P. Lanmon and David B. Whitehouse. GLASS IN THE ROBERT LEHMAN COLLECTION. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1993: 201-204, figs. 74.1, 74.2, 74.3 Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald. Venezianisches Glas der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg. Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg und Luca Verlag Lingen, Germany. 1994: 338-347. Christie's. AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF VENETIAN AND FAÇON DE VENISE GLASS-LONDON. London: Christie's. 03/28/2000: 67, Lot 161. Diane C. Wright (editor), Glass: Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum of Art, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017), pg. 54-5.