Shell-shaped Flask
Shell-shaped Flask
Place of OriginVenice, Italy
Datemid 16th century
Dimensions9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1913.420
On View
Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 4
DescriptionColorless and opaque white glass; blown in a two-part mold, applied, tooled.
Latticinio glass in diagonal stripe and filigree pattern. Flattened globular body, fluted, with tall neck and low flaring base. Two handles joining neck to body.
Label TextThis vase recalls ancient metal and ceramic vessels with similar scallop-shell forms.Published ReferencesRhoades, Orille Bourassa, The World of Antique Arts, Chicago, 1958, repr. p. 98.
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.
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.
Bevlin, Marjorie, Elliott, Design through Discovery, New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970, p. 134, repr. fig. 143.
Lanmon, Dwight P., Glass, New York, 1993 (The Robert Lehman Collection, XI), p. 168, 171, no. 5, fig. 61.2, p. 169.
Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 90, repr. (col.) fig. 35A, p. 91.
Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, New Acquisitions in Glass, Oct. 8 - Dec. 26, 2004.
Probably late third or fourth century
Probably late third century
mid 16th century
late 19th-early 20th century
Probably mid-first century
Nineteenth century
Late second to mid-third century
Third century
1550-1575
3rd-4th century CE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
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