Coppa Guggenheim (Guggenheim Cup)

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Coppa Guggenheim (Guggenheim Cup)

Factory/Foundry Salviati Dott. Antonio Glasshouse

Artist Giuseppe Barovier Italian, 1853-1942

Manufacturer Fratelli Barovier

Place of OriginVenice

Dateabout 1876

DimensionsH: 21 in. (53.34 cm)

MediumTransparent grayish and transparent blue soda-lime glass; dip-molded, blown, and hot-worked glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineOrion Fund

Object number

2011.9A-B

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Label TextThe Coppa Guggenheim is considered the quintessential Venetian presentation cup (pokal). It epitomizes the pinnacle of Venetian skill in two of its “Golden Ages”: the 17th-century, when such covered goblets were the height of fashion and the ultimate European luxury glass, and the second half of the 19th century, when Venetian glassmakers rediscovered and re-learned their glorious past that had been lost during the Napoleonic occupation. They regained their previous status as most-skilled European producers of hand-blown glass, as attested by this remarkable example. Giuseppe Barovier created the goblet in 1876, basing it on the 17th-century Coppa Guggenheim, then owned by the Italian antique dealer and educator Michelangelo Guggenheim, after whom it is named.