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Tall-stem chalice
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Tuscany
    • Date:
      late 16th cent. - early 17th cent.
    • Materials:
      transparent glass
    • Dimensions:
      height 154 mm, diameter 108 mm
    • Inventory:
      318
    • Tall-stem chalice (Inv. 318)

Chalice composed of a bell-shaped flared cup with a lightly ribbed, undulated surface, a tall striped stem with alternating narrow and bulging sections, and a round foot. The pattern is characteristic of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century glassware, as illustrated in the drawings attributed to the à la façon de Venise draftsman, and preserved in the Prints and Drawings Department of the Uffizi Gallery.