# Dice Glass [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN GLASS MASTER, Netherlandish]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: White glass with engraving and silver mount, height 17 cm ## Commentary Dice glasses without a foot but often with a silver mount were popular in the second half of the 16th century and throughout the 17th. The glass was used in a drinking game in which it had to be drained in one for the number of times shown on the dice. It was also known as a 'drink-up' - a glass that had to be placed on the table upside-down, preferably empty. This glass, blown 'à la façon de Venise,' is of clear, colourless and white glass with diamond-point engraving. It belongs to the earliest group of Dutch glasses decorated with diamond-point engraving, and it derives from Italian examples. ## Related artworks - [Goblet]() - [Goblet]() - [Roemer with the motto of Prince Maurits]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()