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16 - Exceptional large biconical glass goblet (“becher”) on a foot, decorated with filigree and twisted patterns
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Exceptional large biconical glass goblet (“becher”) on a foot, decorated with filigree and twisted patterns Venetian style, Netherlands or Germany, late 16th–early 17th century H. 21 cm, diam. 13 cm Comparative bibliography: Dwight P. Lanmon and David B. Whitehouse, *The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Glass*, New York, 1993. The goblet is made of slightly gray-tinted glass decorated with white vetro a fili and vetro a retorti. It rests on a stem with identical decoration. Condition: Minimal traces of crizzling on a narrow transverse band near the rim. Several goblets of this shape and size are known to exist in public collections, notably one, engraved with a diamond pattern, held by the Corning Museum of Glass (inv. 79.3.329). For other examples, see Lanmon and Whitehouse, pp. 159–160.
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