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Conical glass
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Tuscany
    • Date:
      late 16th cent. - early 17th cent.
    • Materials:
      transparent glass
    • Dimensions:
      height 240 mm, aperture 198 mm
    • Inventory:
      320
    • Conical glass (Inv. 320)

Glass with a flared conical cup, whose walls are flattened to form an oblong opening. The round foot is surmounted by a smooth collar. Represented in Giovanni Maggi's manuscript Bicchierografia (1604).