MID 16TH CENTURY, VENICE

The nearest parallel in form and decoration to the present goblet would appear to be a reliquary vase and cover in the Museo Vetrario, Murano (see Mariacher 1963, p. 95, pl. A) and for goblets with latticinio bowls of similar form see Theuerkauff 1994, p. 279, no. 267 and Dorigato 1986, p. 82. Whilst the three elements of the present example, the bowl, stem and foot, are all found in glass dating to the 16th Century, the very pale straw tint of the glass and the method of laying the lattimo threads on to the glass rather than being marvered into the metal, this latter method more usually associated with Venice, might suggest a location other than Venice for the manufacture of this rare goblet.