Goblet
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Title/s | Goblet |
Maker/s | Verzelini, Giacomo (glassmaker) [ULAN info: Italian glass artist in England, 1522-1606]
de Lysle, Anthony probably (engraver)
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Category |
glass
drinking glasses (sub-category) |
Name | goblet |
School/Style |
Renaissance |
Description | Dark soda glass, blown, and diamond point engraved. Deep-sided rounded bowl; hollow ribbed knop; circular blown foot rising up in the middle. The bowl is decorated with a frieze of hounds, a stag and a unicorn, and decorated with three panels containing respectively the initials 'AT' and 'RT' and the date '1578' within a frieze of foliage. The high foot is engraved with a foliate design. |
Production Notes | Made in the glasshouse at the Crutched Friars, London. |
Production Place | London (glassmaker) (place) England (glassmaker) (country) London (engraver) (place) () England (engraver) (country) |
Technique Description | clear glass, blown, and diamond-point engraved |
Dimensions |
height: (whole): 21.6
cm
diameter: (rim):
cm
diameter: (foot):
cm
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Period | late 16th Century
Elizabeth I
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Date | 1578 |
Provenance |
bought:
Dawson, Hugh, Sir 1967-04-27 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Sir Hugh Dawson, Bart. from whom purchased through Delomosne & Sons, London
Purchased with the Beves, Marlay, and Glass Duplicates funds and with grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Inscriptions/Marks | -
inscription
Position: on bowl
Method: diamond-point engraving
Content: 'AT' and 'RT'
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date
Position: on bowl
Method: diamond-point engraving
Content: 1578
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Documentation | - (1968) The Annual Reports of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate and the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Cambridge for the Year ending 31 December 1967, Cambridge (Cambs.)
[comments: Publ. Illustrated, plate IV] - Polak, Ada (1975) Glass; its makers and its public, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson [page: p. 80]
[comments: Publ. Illustrated p. 80, fig. 28] - The Fitzwilliam Museum (1977) Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: pp. 75, 78]
[comments: Publ. p. 75, illustrated, p.78, no. 171] - Gardner, Paul Vickers (1979) Glass, The Smithsonian Illustrated Library and Antiques, [page: p. 73]
[comments: Publ. p. 73, pl. 59] - Ball, Victoria Kloss (1980) Architecture and Interior Design. A Basic History Through the Seventeenth Century, New York: Wiley
[comments: Publ. p. 313, fig. 8.10] - Sutton, D. Aspects of British Collecting. 1. Early Patrons and Collectors, [page: p. 286]
Source title: Apollo (November 1980)
[comments: Publ. p. 286, pl. 10] - Charleston, R.J. (1984) English Glass and the Glass used in England, c. 400-1940, London: Allen & Unwin [page: p. 56]
[comments: Publ. Illustrated and discussed, pl. 126, p. 56] - (1991) Delomosne,
[comments: Publ. Illustrated, Delomosne & Son Ltd., Court Close, North Wraxall, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN14 7AD, 1991, no. 37. Gives the information that 'This glass was discovered in the unprententious home of a cider-maker in East Devon. It was known as the 'Sporting Trophy' and used annually for the wild daffodils which grow profusely up the valley. An aunt had been housekeeper at Longleat but neither this connection, nor a search of local parish records discovered the owners of the initials whose betrothal this glass presumably commemorates.'] - Page, Jutta-Annette (2004) Beyond Venice, Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750, Corning: The Corning Museum of Glass [page: 280]
[comments: Publ. p. 280, fig. 10. See text by Hugh Wilmott 'Venetian and Façon de Venise Glass in England, pp. 271-307, especially, pp. 278-82, where the author expresses doubt about whether this glass was made in England.] - (2005) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum, London: Scala [page: 139]
[comments: Publ. Illustrated in colour with short text] - Mortimer, Martin (2009) The Long View: An Exhibitor's Tale, London: The National Magazine Comany Limited [page: 14-18]
Source title: The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair, 11-17 June 2009, 2009 Handbook (2009)
[comments: Publ. p. 16 illustrated]
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Other Notes | Giacomo (or Jacopo) Verzelini was born in Venice in 1522. He emigrated to Antwerp, where in 1566 he married Elizabeth Vanburen, and was living in London by 1571. He took over the Crutched Friars glasshouse from Jean Carré, who died in 1572, and was granted a patent on 15 December 1574 which prohibited others from manufacturing Venetian-style glass for twenty-one years. He is said to have retired in 1592, before his patent expired, and died in 1606. |
Accession Number | C.4-1967 (Applied Arts)
(Reference Number: 24954; Input Date: 2001-03-23 / Last Edit: 2011-06-30) |
