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Filigree Ewer

Place of OriginVenice, Italy

Dateabout 1550-1600

DimensionsH: 11 11/16 in. (29.5 cm)

Mediumblown and tooled glass, silver gilt, jewels and enamel

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1960.36

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 15

Collections

Glass

Published References"In the Museums", Antiques, January 1962, p. 116, repr.

"Recent Important Acquisitions," Journal of Glass Studies, Corning Museum of Glass, vol. IV, 1962, repr. p. 144.

Hutton, William, "European Glass in the Museum Collection," Toledo Museum News, New Series, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring 1963, (also published as European Glass), p. 4, repr. p.6.

Sotheby & Co., March 16, 1964, lot 108, mentions TMA ewer-mounted vase as a comparative example.

Rogers, Millard F., "The European and American glass collection," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, repr (b&w) fig.1, p. 479.

Labino, Dominick, Visual Art in Glass, Dubuque, IA, 1968, p. 51, repr. fig. 34.

"Accessions" Art Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 1, Spring 1970, p. 134, repr., fig. 143.

Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, 1969, repr. p. 52.

Riefstahl, Rudolf M., "European jeweled arts," Toledo Museum News, vol. 13, no. 3, Autumn 1970, p. 67, repr.

Gunther, Charles F. "How Glass is Made," Toledo Museum News, New Series, vol. 15, no. 1, repr. p. 16.

Polak, Ada, Glass, its makers and its public, London, 1975, repr. frontispiece.

Polan, Ada., "Venetian Renaissance Glass", Connoisseur, vol. 192, no. 773, Aug. 1976, pp. 273, 277, repr. fig. 6.

Mohr, J. Gilbert. Fiber Glass, New York, 1978, p. 190, repr. fig. 4-1.

Morley-Fletcher, Hugo, "Seventeenth-century Glass," , London, 1984, repr. (col.) p. 109.

Dreier, Franz Adrian, Venizianische Gläser und 'Façon de Venise', Berlin, 1989, p. 67.

Chambers, Karen S., Clearly Inspired: Contemporary Glass and Its Origins, San Francisco, 1999, p.23, repr.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 90, repr. (col.) p. 91.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 146, repr. (col.).

Mogens, Bencard, Das Weisse Gold von Venedig: Filigranglas fur die Kunstkammern Europeas = The White Gold of Venice: Filigree Glass for European Kunstkammer, Munich, Kunstkammer Georg Laue, 2014, fig. 10, p. 17, p.16.

Label TextThis ewer was a treasured Venetian import to Nuremberg, Germany. There, the goldsmith Heinrich Straub, active from 1608 to 1636, replaced the original glass handle with an elaborate, chased silver-gilt version formed by a male and female figure. A companion piece to this ewer, nearly identically mounted, is now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The elaborate pair would have graced the serving buffet of an elegant, probably Northern European, household.