Capriccio glass in the shape of a crab, whose nippers rest on a baluster stem with a round collar, supported by a three-pronged foot. The three prongs of the foot are, in turn, divided into three curl-shaped parts. There is an opening with a fringed rim on the round body and another aperture at the top. The object belongs to a category of glassware that, from the early seventeenth century, catered increasingly to the vogue for the fanciful and the bizarre.