Footed vase (Vasenpokal)

Austrian, Innsbruck

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 199

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.

Footed vase (Vasenpokal), Glass: blown, applied mold-blown, impressed, and milled decoration, engraved, cold-painted, and gilded, Austrian, Innsbruck

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Footed vase (Vasenpokal), Glass: blown, applied mold-blown, impressed, and milled decoration, engraved, cold-painted, and gilded, Austrian, Innsbruck
Footed vase (Vasenpokal), Glass: blown, applied mold-blown, impressed, and milled decoration, engraved, cold-painted, and gilded, Austrian, Innsbruck
Footed vase (Vasenpokal), Glass: blown, applied mold-blown, impressed, and milled decoration, engraved, cold-painted, and gilded, Austrian, Innsbruck

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