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Double-handle vases
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Tuscany
    • Date:
      late 16th cent. - early 17th cent.
    • Materials:
      transparent and blue glass
    • Dimensions:
      heights 194 - 199 mm, diameter 80 mm
    • Inventory:
      330
    • Double-handle vases (Inv. 330)
    • Double-handle vases (Inv. 330)

Two glass vases with double handles. The first has a smooth rounded body, a cylindrical neck, a round foot, a medium knop, and two double handles with conch-shaped decoration in blue glass at the joint. It was probably fitted with a rounded lid with a knop end and three fins, preserved in the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza. The vase was probably made at the Medici glasshouse between 1570 and 1604.

The second vase has a rounded body, a middle band decorated with blue glass buttons, a cylindrical neck, a round foot, a medium knop, and two double handles with conch-shaped decoration in transparent glass at the joint. There is a round lid ending in a knop with two fins. Both vases are a variant of item inv. 279.