PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Musílek, Martin
AU  - Žďárská, Anna
TI  - "From Venice to the end of the world". The story of the glass cup from the Prague house No. 379/I
DP  - 2014 Dec 15
TA  - Staletá Praha
PG  - 2--17
VI  - 30
IP  - 2
AID - 10.56112/sp.2014.2.01
IS  - 02316056
AB  - There is an interesting set of high medieval glass dated to the period from the late 13th to the early 14th century that has come from archaeological research on the present parcel of house No. 379/I on the street Na Můstku in Prague's Old Town. Attention was aroused in particular by one cup, painted with enamels and gold and probably originating from the glass factory in Murano near Venice. This article is an attempt to answer the questions of who ordered the cup, and how this item came into Bohemia. The most important clue to its identification is a trio of depicted coats of arms which would hypothetically refer to the cup's customer, perhaps originating from middle England. The article is intended primarily as a topic for discussion on the possibilities and limits of customers and owners of luxury items based on fragmentarily surviving written sources.