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By the mid-1400s the word lattimo had come to mean glass made milk-like by the addition of opacifying materials, such as an oxide of tin. It was imitative of Chinese porcelain. Only fourteen surviving pieces of lattimo vessels are recorded. These beakers may have been intended as betrothal or wedding gifts. This one is enameled with idealized portrait heads of a young man and woman. Such portrait heads of young women were also a feature of Italian Maiolica, especially those at Deruta (see "love dishes" in Gallery 219).
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133336
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Marriage Beaker
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133336
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Marriage Beaker
description
By the mid-1400s the word lattimo had come to mean glass made milk-like by the addition of opacifying materials, such as an oxide of tin. It was imitative of Chinese porcelain. Only fourteen surviving pieces of lattimo vessels are recorded. These beakers may have been intended as betrothal or wedding gifts. This one is enameled with idealized portrait heads of a young man and woman. Such portrait heads of young women were also a feature of Italian Maiolica, especially those at Deruta (see "love dishes" in Gallery 219).
date
late 1400s
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60760793
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Glass
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 10.2 x 7.4 cm (4 x 2 15/16 in.)
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Italy, Venice
accession
1955.7
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opaque glass (milk glass or lattimo), enameled
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Marriage Beaker, late 1400s. Italy, Venice. Opaque glass (milk glass or lattimo), enameled; overall: 10.2 x 7.4 cm (4 x 2 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1955.70
collection
Decorative Arts
citations
citation
Francis, Henry S. <em>Venetian Tradition: Catalogue of the Exhibition</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 89
citation
Foote, Helen. "An Enameled glass Marriage Beaker." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>43, no. 6 (June 1956): 118-120.
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Mentioned: p. 118; Reproduced: p. 119
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 228
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
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Reproduced: p. 88
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
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Reproduced: p. 88
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
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Reproduced: p. 101
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Mack, Rosamond E. <em>Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600</em>. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
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Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 120-1, fig. 126
citation
Lindow, James. <em>The Renaissance Palace in Florence: Magnificence and Splendour in Fifteenth-Century Italy.</em> Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
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Mentioned & reproduced: p. 159, fig. 38
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 11:27:01.200000
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133336
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Decorative Art and Design
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Decorative Arts
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opaque glass (milk glass or lattimo), enameled
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