Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Covered Goblet

Manufacturer Unknown

CultureVenetian

Dateca. 1900-1950

MediumBlown and tooled glass with applied parts and gilt

Dimensions32 in. (81.3 cm)
Base: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Marjory S. Strauss

Object number81.44

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-4, Case 30

DescriptionCovered goblet of blown bright green glass with faint swirls of opal & aventurine. Attached to matching dome foot with turned rim by colorless with aventurine multi-knop stem. Facon de Venice style with 5 exotic lattice-like scrolls projecting. Several mended breaks on stem & several parts to be mended. Matching green dome cover with tall finial matching stem.

Label TextVenetian Covered Goblet, ca. 1900-50 Transparent green glass, blown, tooled with applied parts, gilt Gift of Mrs. Marjory S. Strauss 81.44 Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, the glassmaking factories in Venice experienced a great revival. Resurrecting earlier Renaissance techniques and designs, the glassmakers utilized new colors and invented fanciful forms inspired by the surrounding lagoons. Highly skilled workers pushed the material to create larger and more elaborate masterpieces than had been seen before in Venetian glass of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Exhibition History"Clearly Inspired: Contemporary Glass and its Origins," Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, March 28 - June 6, 1999. Published ReferencesKaren S. Chambers and Tina Oldknow, _Clearly Inspired Contemporary Glass and Its Origins_, Tampa Museum of Art, (San Francisco: Pomegranate Communications Inc., 1999), p. 107.