Covered Beaker

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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

DescriptionLace glass in pattern of vertical filigree stripes. Blown, with filigrana decoration. Tall cylindrical body on low flaring base. Finial on cover of clear glass.

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.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Venice: Light and Landscape, November 5, 2010-March 11, 2011.