Glass beakers

Date: About 1300

Found in a chalk-lined cesspit in the goldsmiths' quarter of London, this glass comprises fragments of at least eight vessels, all beakers for wine, decorated in coloured enamel. The designs include figures of saints, a pelican, and shields. One shield bears a blue wolf, the arms of the Wolfsberg family that held land near Augsburg in southern Germany. The glasses were probably made in Venice, intended for export. Two of them carry the maker's name - 'Master Bartholomew'. Venetian records contain references to a man of this name, a 'painter of glasses', who was working in Venice between 1290 and 1325.

Accession number: MedWeb009

Place of collection: 7-10 Foster Lane, 5-6 Rose and Crown Court EC2 [City of London]

Material: glass; enamel

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Gallery location: Case 17.4

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