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Goblet

Object Details

Title:

Goblet

Artist/Maker:

Unknown

Culture:

Italian

Place:

Murano, Venice, Veneto, Italy (Place Created)

Date:

late 15th–early 16th century

Medium:

Free-blown colorless glass with gold leaf and enamel decoration

Object Number:

84.DK.540

Dimensions:

13.8 × 10 × 7.3 cm (5 7/16 × 3 15/16 × 2 7/8 in.)

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Object Description

Made of clear glass with minute bubbles throughout, this goblet would probably have been used as a wineglass. A continuous pattern of interlaced tendrils, stylized palmettes, and marguerite daisies in blue, dark red, and white enamel decorates the flared bowl. Few glass vessels are decorated as this one is, with no figures, only painted foliage.

A fragment of a similar vessel with comparable intertwined foliage painting was found under the foundations of the bell-tower of San Marco, Venice, after it collapsed in 1902. After some uncertainty, this discovery confirmed that this "Venetian-style" goblet was indeed Venetian.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
The Arts of Fire: Islamic Influences on the Italian Renaissance (May 4 to September 5, 2004)
  • The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles), May 4 to September 4, 2004
Bibliography
Bibliography

"Acquisitions/1984." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 13 (1985), p. 246, no. 192.

Bremer-David, Charissa, et al. Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1993), pp. 214-15, no. 372.

Hess, Catherine, and Timothy Husband. European Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997), pp. 76-77, no. 16.

Wilson, Gillian, and Catherine Hess. Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001), p. 233, no. 478.

Baumgartner, Erwin. Venise et façon de Venise: verres renaissance du Musée des arts décoratifs (Paris: Union centrale des arts décoratifs, 2003), p. 129.

Hess, Catherine, ed. The Arts of Fire: Islamic Influences on Glass and Ceramics of the Italian Renaissance, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004), pp. 90-91, pl. 8.