Enamelled glass goblet with cover, ca. 1500
Decolourized and blue glass, optical blown, gilt and enamelled
(H x Ø)25,2 × 12,3 cm
About the workThe goblet is typical of the heyday of Venice’s glass art in the early sixteenth century. The decoration with flames resembles the halo surrounding the Jesus monogram “IHS”, which was widespread at the time and later adopted by the Jesuit order as their emblem. Since lids were unusual south of the Alps, the goblet was likely a commissioned for the north. However, the entire genre of Venetian enamelled glassware is now under discussion by scholars suspicious of eighteenth or nineteenth-century imitations.
AccessionAcquisition 1999
Inventory numberGl 1999-32 a,b
