id: 133336 accession number: 1955.70 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.70 updated: 2023-08-23 21:18:49.818000 Marriage Beaker, late 1400s. Italy, Venice, late 15th century. 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 title: Marriage Beaker title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: late 1400s creation date earliest: 1475 creation date latest: 1499 current location: 118 Italian Renaissance creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Venice, late 15th century technique: opaque glass (milk glass or lattimo), enameled department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Glass find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 10.2 x 7.4 cm (4 x 2 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia (A Thousand Years of Glass Art in Venice) opening date: 1982-07-24T04:00:00 Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia (A Thousand Years of Glass Art in Venice). Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy, Venice, Italy (July 24-December 8, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * No existing exhibition history --- PROVENANCE Baron Maurice de Rothschild [1881-1957], Chateau de Pregny. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall 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). --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Francis, Henry S. Venetian Tradition: Catalogue of the Exhibition. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956. page number: Mentioned: p. 89 url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=1648601 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 228 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n50 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 88 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n112 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 88 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n112 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 101 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n121 Mack, Rosamond E. Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. page number: Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 120-1, fig. 126 url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=225950109 Lindow, James. The Renaissance Palace in Florence: Magnificence and Splendour in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 159, fig. 38 url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=77520754 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.70/1955.70_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.70/1955.70_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.70/1955.70_full.tif