Serving Flask

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Serving Flask

Place of OriginItaly (Venice)

DateLate 15th- Early 16th century

DimensionsH: 34.6 cm (13 5/8 in.)

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

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.).Label TextA silk cord originally may have been threaded through the applied glass loops on this flask.