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Vases
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      16th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      height 154 mm, diameter 45 mm
    • Inventory:
      2064, 2065
    • Vases (Inv. 2064, 2065)

Four vases made of decorated glass, each bearing the Medici coat of arms. Similar small vases are illustrated in the manuscript diaries of the Accademia del Cimento, preserved at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence. They were used for experiments on temperature changes in liquids, measured by means of alcohol thermometers placed inside them.