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Marriage Beaker
The collection record classifies this work as glass. It is dated late 1400s. Recorded culture or place: Italy, Venice.
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- Museum title
- Marriage Beaker
- Date
- late 1400s
- Culture / origin
- Italy, Venice
- Materials and technique
- opaque glass (milk glass or lattimo), enameled
- Dimensions
- Overall: 10.2 x 7.4 cm (4 x 2 15/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1955.70
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
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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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · CC0
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