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Serpent Glass with Hunting Scene

Place of OriginSouthern Netherlandish
Dateabout 1650-1700
DimensionsH: 11 15/16 in. (30.3 cm)
Mediumblown and tooled glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1966.117
On View
Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 4
DescriptionBlown and tooled glass cup diamond-point engraved with a stag hunt.
Label TextVenetian glass was highly prized throughout Europe and Venetian-trained glassmakers capable of producing façon de Venise vessels—glass in the Venetian style—were the highest paid and most desirable employees in all European glasshouses. In the Southern Netherlands, where Venetian glass was a greatly desired luxury, a local Venetian-style glass manufactory was established as early as 1537 in Antwerp. Here the fashionable Venetian-style “serpent glass”—so called for the serpentine forms composing the stem—is decorated with a Northern European hunting scene.Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 182-83, repr. (col.).Exhibition HistoryToledo, Toledo Museum of Art,Venice: Light and Landscape, November 5, 2010-March 11, 2011.

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