Shell-shaped Flask

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Shell-shaped Flask

Place of OriginItaly, Venice

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.