Jug - Dog shaped

This is one of the most interesting examples of seventeenth-century Transylvanian colored glass objects is this cobalt blue dog shaped vessel. Its shape is very similar to certain early seventeenth-century German humorous glass works (Scherzgefäß - see here), and this points to the fact that Transylvanian glassworkers continued to look to German inspiration alongside that of Venice and Murano.

The coloring - a specific dark cobalt blue – on the other hand, is completely different from the German tradition, since they are usually colorless (impurities will often give them a light green color) with colored decorative lines, most frequently red glass. This intense blue color, almost leaning towards violet, is a typical tone for early Transylvanian cobalt glassworks.

Next to the colorless, clear, honey yellow and red-brown colores, by the beginning of the seventeenth century blue glass was the most widespread, particularly in glass blowing workshops of Komána (today Comăna, Romania) and Porumbák (today Porumbacu, Romania).