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Cup
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Tuscany
    • Date:
      17th cent.
    • Materials:
      smoked glass
    • Dimensions:
      height 380 mm, diameter 235 mm
    • Inventory:
      268
    • Cup (Inv. 268)

This item has a tall bell-shaped base with heavy bean-shaped ornaments, a stem with a thick knop, and crests decorated in the morise style. The circular cup has a smooth rim and bean-shaped decorations, obtained with the mezza stampatura ["half-stamping"] technique. The distinctive Gothic structure of the foot and the bean patterns on the cup recall similar examples of smaller fruit-stands or fruit-cups with feet found in the Veneto area in the first half of the sixteenth century. Their designs were inspired by ceramics, metalworking, and rock crystals.