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Description: | Small glass fragment, 3 mm thick and curved in two planes; therefore part of a globular rather than a cylindrical vessel. The basic colour is a translucent dusty pale pinkish-purple, within which are narrow oblique white strands. Inlaid onto the surface are three opaque white stripes which taper from 2 mm to 1 mm wide. Hugh Willmott has seen a scan and has identified it as Venetian and early to mid 16th century, probably part of the lower body of a stemmed goblet. These goblets are usually in colourless or more infrequently in blue, both with opaque white stripes, so the pinkish tint is a little unusual. The technical term for this type of striped glass is 'vetro a fili', and the oblique strands
within the pink field are 'vetro a retorti'. This type of glass is high-status and not common. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1500
1570 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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