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| Keywords: Italian - Milk Glass Vase in the Shape of a Pilgrim's Flask - Walters 4730 - Profile.jpg Fine opaque white glass milk glass or in Italian lattimo was developed in Venice to imitate the appearance of the delicate translucent Persian and Chinese porcelain with blue and white designs that Europeans found so appealing and were unable to reproduce Nevertheless the results here with the combination of blue and white design and a mythological scene the abduction of the maiden Europa by the god Jupiter disguised as a bull framed in yellow is immediately imitative of Italian Renaissance maiolica earthenware The flask shape with attachments for carrying cords draws both on Roman glass flasks and the simple wooden flask used by pilgrims ca 1525 Renaissance gilded opaque white glass cm 16 2 accession number 47 30 40864 Harding New York Henry Walters Baltimore 1916 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1916 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 3000 Years of Glass Treasures from The Walters Art Gallery The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1982 place of origin Venice Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Venice maiolica | ||||
