Milk Glass Vase in the Shape of a Pilgrim's Flask

ca. 1525 (Renaissance) 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm) Citation Source image

Fine opaque white glass (milk glass, or in Italian, "lattimo") was developed in Venice to imitate the appearance of the delicate, translucent Persian and Chinese porcelain with blue and white designs that Europeans found so appealing and were unable to reproduce. Nevertheless,...

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Harding, New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1916 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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