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Glass with handles
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Tuscany?
    • Date:
      early 17th cent.
    • Materials:
      transparent and blue glass
    • Dimensions:
      height 140 mm, diameter 75 mm
    • Inventory:
      258
    • Glass with handles (Inv. 258)

This glass has a flared cup with an octagonal mouth; the cup walls are decorated with mold-stamped motifs. The baluster stem carries two small double handles in blue glass, secured by two small chains. Similar shapes and ornamentation are found in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Veneto glassware. This example is an à la façon de Venise variant, probably made in Tuscany.