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Behaim Beaker. Colorless. Blown; enameled, gilded. Beaker: barrel shaped, with fire-polished rim; integral foot with articulated foot-ring and pontil mark. Below rim, gilded band with scratched design of scales, with rounded side up, between lines and denticular frieze below. Light blue dots adorn scales, red dots decorate denticular frieze, and dense row of white dots and scattered row of blue dots appear below gilding. Above foot, gilded band is scratched into circlets that hold, alternately, blue dot and red dot. Between bands, continuous green ground with black sprigs and white enamel dots; three gold trees, with green and blue enamel dots enlivened with white enamel dots, subdivide surface for large coat of arms and two cusped white and yellow frames with representations of archangel Michael and Saint Catherine. Targe per pale of gules and argent, overall a bend wavy sinister sable; crest a bird argent, gorged with crown sable; helmet mantlings red, lined with white.
Exhibitions (5)

Global Luxury in Renaissance Venice
Venue(s)
Gardiner Museum 2021-10-19 through 2022-05-29
The exhibition will explore renaissance Venice as a vibrant point of cultures and ideas. It will present Venetian maiolica in dialogue with a range of fine and decorative arts: from Chinese porcelain and Islamic metalwork to Venetian glass and painting, highlighting processess of exchange and adaptation, as well as rivalry and imitation across media. The exhibition will feature maiolica from the Gardiner Museum's collection, which will be enhanced by loans of ceramics, textiles, metalwork, glass, engravings, drawings, painting, and more.

Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
Venue(s)
Metropolitan Museum of Art 2008-11-17 through 2009-02-15
Kimbell Art Museum 2009-03-15 through 2009-06-14

Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2004-05-13 through 2004-10-17

The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from The Corning Museum of Glass
Venue(s)
IBM Gallery 1989-12-12 through 1990-02-02
National Gallery of Art 1990-12-09 through 1991-04-14
Decorative and utilitarian works from the Corning Museum of Glass, surveying 35 centuries of glass-making technology and stylistic developments from ancient Egyptian, Roman, Islamic, and Asian cultures to contemporary American and European examples.
The works were selected by Corning Museum staff members Dwight P. Lanmon, director and curator of European glass; David B. Whitehouse, curator of ancient and Islamic glass; Jane Shadel Spillman, curator of American glass; and Susanne K. Frantz, curator of 20th-century glass.
Publications (28)
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian-Style Glassworking (2019)
illustrated, Introduction fig. 11;
BIB# 716365
Chihuly: New York Botanical Garden (2017)
illustrated, p. 67 (fig. 22);
BIB# 169684
Through the Looking Glass: A Set of Table Goblets at Palazzo Falson, Mdina (2015)
illustrated, p. 49; fig. 6, 7;
BIB# AI101298
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy (2008)
illustrated, p. 96, cat. 28, view 1 & 2, Fig. 61;
BIB# 106342
Painting on Glass: Contemporary Designs, Simple Techniques (2000)
illustrated, p. 7, top;
BIB# 133926
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999)
illustrated, p. 38;
BIB# 63967
Wedding Traditions: Here Comes the Bride (1997)
illustrated, p. 2;
BIB# 159842
The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from the Corning Museum of Glass (1990-01-19)
illustrated, p. 1 (bottom left);
BIB# AI23824
The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from the Corning Museum (1990-01)
illustrated, p. 24 (left);
BIB# AI24626
L'Histoire du Verre: A Travers Les Tresors du Musee de Corning (1990)
illustrated, p. 60;
Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia (1982)
pp. 88-89, #82;
3000 Jahre Glaskunst : von der Antike bis zum Jugendstil : [Ausstellung], Kunstmuseum Luzern, 19.7.-13.9.1981 (1981)
pp. 27, 153, #645;
BIB# 21949
Title Unknown (Weltkunst) (1978-05-15)
p. 1193;