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Footed vase (Vasenpokal)

ca. 1570–1590
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 520
This vase is ambitiously ornamented in the Venetian style with engraved decoration and gold, red, and green cold painting. It also shows key characteristics of pieces from the glassworks that served the Innsbruck court in the late sixteenth century. Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria secured skilled glassworkers and raw materials from Venice, famed for its thin and clear glass known as cristallo. Glass was valued for the technical artistry that transformed humble sand, soda ash, and lime into a nearly weightless, translucent object precious enough to be adorned with gold.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Footed vase (Vasenpokal)
  • Date: ca. 1570–1590
  • Culture: Austrian, Innsbruck
  • Medium: Glass: blown, applied mold-blown, impressed, and milled decoration, engraved, cold-painted, and gilded
  • Dimensions: Confirmed: 12 3/4 × 8 1/2 in. (32.4 × 21.6 cm)
  • Classification: Glass
  • Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
  • Object Number: 91.1.1460
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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