Map of Selected Venetian-Style Glassworking Centers

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Select a renaissance glassworking region

Note: Modern country borders are depicted. Renaissance political borders may have differed.

Origin of some objects may be uncertain. See main chapters for details.

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Austria

Clear glass vessel with gold trim at base and gold, jewelled lid.

Pear-shaped, covered clear glass goblet with engraved decorations

Glass boot-shaped vessel with gold decorations

Opaque black, flameworked scorpion

England

Clear glass goblet engraved with a stag, a unicorn, and hounds, and the owners' initials RT and AT entwined by lover's knots

Glass tankard with rounded bottom and long straight neck covered in vertical turquoise stripes with silver lid and base

Florence

Glass chalice with twisted, serpent-shaped stem

Pale brownish and opaque white glass vessel with vertical stripes

France

Clear wineglass; bowl has slight vertical ribbing and stem has diagonal ribbing

Clear glass goblet with straight stem and cone-shaped bowl

Germany

Clear glass beaker with enameled decoration depicting Apollo seated on Mount Parnassus in Greece

Low Countries

Tall, clear ale glass engraved with a portrait of the young William III, prince of Orange

Clear goblet with decorative stem and blue "wings" along each side of the stem

Thin, clear glass with white and blue spiral stripes around the vessel

Colorless glass goblet with decorative stem shaped into a dragon with blue wings

Colorless glass goblet with decorative stem featuring red cane twisted to resemble a crouching dragon

Clear glass goblet with decorative stem featuring a cube shape with blue dots on corners

Spain

Clear wineglass with white stripes and very shallow, flared bowl

Sweden

elaborate clear glass covered goblet with crown design

Switzerland

Clear glass goblet with white cane filigrana in the stem and base