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Source Description
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, the results here, with the combination of blue and white design and a mythological scene (the abduction of the maiden Europa by the god Jupiter disguised as a bull) framed in yellow, is immediately imitative of Italian Renaissance maiolica (earthenware). The flask shape with attachments for carrying cords draws both on Roman glass flasks and the simple wooden flask used by pilgrims.
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40864
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Milk Glass Vase in the Shape of a Pilgrim's Flask
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40864
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title
Milk Glass Vase in the Shape of a Pilgrim's Flask
description
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, the results here, with the combination of blue and white design and a mythological scene (the abduction of the maiden Europa by the god Jupiter disguised as a bull) framed in yellow, is immediately imitative of Italian Renaissance maiolica (earthenware). The flask shape with attachments for carrying cords draws both on Roman glass flasks and the simple wooden flask used by pilgrims.
provenance
Harding, New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1916 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1525 (Renaissance)
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CC0
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en
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Glasswares
vases
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1
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6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm)
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gilded opaque white glass
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6200
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REN
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1994
454
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photo
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