Dichroic Casting Bottle

Place of OriginVenice, Italy; England

Dateabout 1580

DimensionsH: 5 × Diam: 2 1/8 × Base Diam: 1 7/8 in. (12.7 × 5.4 × 4.8 cm)

MediumTranslucent blue dichroic glass; blown, chased silver mount.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

2005.286A-B

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 15

DescriptionThe ovoid glass body mounted with a spreading foot engraved with a band of shaded arabesques within a molded border; the body enlaced by three vertical straps with scalloped edges and engraved stylized flowerheads; the waisted neck engraved with arabesques above a band of stiff foliage, with two applied lugs, the domed cover pierced and engraved with a stylized flowerhead.

Published ReferencesSale, Fine English and Continental Silver and Objects of Vertu, Tuesday, October 25, 1988, lot 420.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, repr. (col.) p. 92-93.

Exhibition HistoryTrento, Castello del Buonconsiglio - Castel Thun, L'Avventura Del Vetro dal Rinascimento al Novecento tra Venezia e mondi lontani, 2010, no. III.1, pp. 38, 511, repr. (col.) fig.1, p. 38 and p. 339.