Footed Bowl with the Triumph of Fame

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Footed Bowl with the Triumph of Fame

Place of OriginItaly, Venice

Dateabout 1475-1500

DimensionsH: 7 1/2 × Diam: 5 7/8 × Base Diam: 4 1/4 in. (19.1 × 14.9 × 10.8 cm)

Mediumblown, mold-blown, enameled, and gilded glass

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1940.119

On View

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

DescriptionEnamelled with a procession, probably a Triumph of Fame.

Label TextBy the time this enameled cobalt-blue vessel was created in Venice, in the late 15th century, enameling had been part of the technological repertory of Venetian glasshouses for 200 years. The technique had been introduced to Venice from the East by Byzantine glassmakers in the 13th century, though an alternate theory holds that enameling came to Venice via an Islamic source. This type of vessel is often called coppa nuziale (wedding cup) because the parade-like imagery of mythological or allegorical figures relates to the traditional procession that went to fetch the bride and escorted her to her new home. Probably originally fitted with a glass cover, the bowl is too large for the typical Italian drinking goblet. Instead, it likely served sweetmeats and other confections, perhaps to the guests of the new bride and groom.Published ReferencesPage, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 78-81, repr. (col.) p. 79, repr. (det.) p. 80-81.

Putney, Richard H. and Paula Reich, Glass in Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 2007, p. 16, repr. (col.) p. 17.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 123, repr. (col.).

Exhibition HistoryNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Kimball Art Museum, Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, 2008-2009, no. 27, pp. 94-95, repr. (col.).