of flattened form with a bulbous lower section, the sides affixed with two gilt-glass loops, decorated with two large gilded medallions simulating lappets embellished with red, green and white enamel dots connected by a horizontal gilded strap, a gilt-scaled band edged in white enamel dots at the rim, foot and shoulder, the later with radiating flames, on a spreading foot with gilded folded rim, with a later chained metal cover.

Note: Pilgrim in flasks in silver provided the models for such 'inghistera fracade', [flattened bottle] flasks made in maiolica and glass in late 15th century Italy. The gilded decoration imitates the leather or gilt-metal strap work used to mount such flasks. Dwight P. Lanmon discusses the use of ray or flame decoration on a glass goblet in the Robert Lehman collection in the Metropolitan museum and suggests it perhaps derives from radiance typically seen in the depiction of the Mother and Child.1 

A very similar example with only slight differences in the decoration was in the collection M. Émile Gavet, sold at galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 31st May-9th June 1897, lot 590.2 Of the recorded examples in museum collections similar 'ray' decoration though in blue and red enamel like the Lehman goblet, is used on a pilgrim flask in the British museum, reg. no. 1880,0701.4.3 Two flasks with close decoration of large gilded medallion of this kind are in the collections of Waddesdon manor and Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire.4 For further reading on Venetian glass pilgrim bottles see the recent paper by Rosa Barovier Mentasti, et al., 'Dating the Venetian Rovere Flask at The Corning Museum of Glass and Other Flasks', Journal of Glass Studies, Vol. 58, 2014, pp. 171-184.