Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . E /:!:: ,Jf. VENETIAN GLASS BEAKER. 5954-58. BEAKER AND COVER. 5954—1858. AN example of Venetian manufacture of the beginning of the sixteenthcentury, and highly characteristic of the period when it was glass is clear, with transverse fillets forming a somewhat wide bandin the middle, decorated with six masks and rose ornaments. Three ofeach of these are on the cover; three on the central band. These aremoulded and gilt. Below is a gadroon-shaped edging immediately ab
Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . E /:!:: ,Jf. VENETIAN GLASS BEAKER. 5954-58. BEAKER AND COVER. 5954—1858. AN example of Venetian manufacture of the beginning of the sixteenthcentury, and highly characteristic of the period when it was glass is clear, with transverse fillets forming a somewhat wide bandin the middle, decorated with six masks and rose ornaments. Three ofeach of these are on the cover; three on the central band. These aremoulded and gilt. Below is a gadroon-shaped edging immediately abovethe support, which is formed of three round balls, also gilded. This beaker was probably made at Murano where the chief Venetianglass-houses were established, at the time when the workshops therebegan to produce vases, cups, and plates of far better design and qualitythan those of an earlier period. It is to about the end of the fifteenth andthe beginning of the sixteenth century that we must especially ascribethose glass vessels of almost every shape and kind, and of most fragilequality, whose elegant forms ha
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