Main Menu

Serving Flask

Skip to main content
Collections Menu

Serving Flask

Place of OriginItaly, Venice
DateLate 15th- Early 16th century
DimensionsH: 13 5/8 × W: 7 1/2 × D: 4 × Base Diam: 4 in. (34.6 × 19.1 × 10.2 × 10.2 cm)
MediumColorless glass; blown, applied, tooled, enameled, gilded
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1948.225
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 15
Label TextA silk cord originally may have been threaded through the applied glass loops on this flask.Published ReferencesPage, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, repr. (col.) p. 82.Exhibition HistoryNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Kimball Art Museum, Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, 2008-09, no. 30, pp. 98-99, repr. (col.).

Membership

Become a TMA member today

Support TMA

Help support the TMA mission