Vetro a Reticello Footed Cup (Tazza)
Vetro a Reticello Footed Cup (Tazza)
Place of OriginVenice, Italy
Datelate 16th-early 17th century
Dimensions3 3/4 × 6 1/4 in. (9.5 × 15.9 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1913.415
On View
Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 4
DescriptionColorless and opaque white glass; blown, applied, tooled. Simple lace pattern of crossed lines. Shallow bowl on flaring foot.
Published ReferencesRhoades, Orille Bourassa, The World of Antique Arts, Chicago, 1958, repr. p. 97.
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. 7, repr.
Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, 1969, repr. p. 49.
Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 90, repr. (col.) fig. 38, p. 91.
Mogens, Bencard, Das Weisse Gold von Venedig: Filigranglas fur die Kunstkammern Europeas = The White Gold of Venice: Filigree Glass for European Kunstkammer, Munich, Kunstkammer Georg Laue, 2014, fig. 6, col. , p. 12.
17th century
16th or 17th century
17th century
Pierre Delabarre
Glass: before 1630; Mount: c. 1630; Case: c. 1700
Probably first century BCE, possibly later
3rd century BCE
late 18th century
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Late 4th-early 3rd BCE
4th-6th century CE
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