Goblet
Unknown
17th century · Colorless (yellowish), transparent turquoise blue, and opaque brick red, yellow, and white nonlead glass. Blown, trailed, pincered, "vetro a retorti". · Robert Lehman Collection
Wineglasses with fantastic "dragon" stems, sometimes known as serpent glasses, were first made in Venice in the late sixteenth century. They became popular and were widely produced in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Northern Europe by the middle of the seventeenth century. Though difficult to make, serpent glasses were once fairly common. Due to their excessive fragility, however, early examples, such as this one and two others in the Robert Lehman Collection, are relatively rare.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 17th century
- Medium
- Colorless (yellowish), transparent turquoise blue, and opaque brick red, yellow, and white nonlead glass. Blown, trailed, pincered, "vetro a retorti".
- Culture
- Façon de Venise, probably south Lowlands or Germany
- Department
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
