Covered Beaker
Covered Beaker
Place of OriginVenice, Italy
Datemid 16th century
DimensionsGlass Dimensions (with cover): 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1913.417
On View
Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 4
Collections
Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Venice: Light and Landscape, November 5, 2010-March 11, 2011.Label TextCovered beakers with straight and flaring bowls were made in a variety of sizes, the larger ones intended for the Northern European market. Fadenglas (“thread glass”), as it was called in German, became part of the luxury goods traded widely by wealthy German merchants from Augsburg and Nuremberg who worked in Venice. Naturally, it could also be found in their own households. The popularity of Venetian glass in the rest of Europe led to its emulation by various other European glasshouses.- Glass
1550-1600
mid 16th century
about 1860-1870
1550-1575
17th century
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