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Chalice with fins
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Tuscany
    • Date:
      late 16th cent. - early 17th cent.
    • Materials:
      transparent glass
    • Dimensions:
      height 175 mm, diameter 136 mm
    • Inventory:
      341/38
    • Chalice with fins (Inv. 341/38)

This chalice features a hemispherical cup and a distinctive baluster stem with a smooth knop on a large round foot. The foot is adorned with three smooth fins carrying clear glass buttons. Similar cup shapes and fin motifs (often crested) are found in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century glassware of the Veneto, which probably inspired the Tuscan glassblower.