Winged goblets of Venetian style, or façon de Venise, became more common in Western Europe at the end of the 16th century, and they stayed popular until as late as the second half of the 17th century. Glassblowers, who had originally escaped from Venice, produced goblets in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and other countries. Typical features of the goblets were a thin-walled bowl and a richly decorated stem with wings shaped from a glass thread, often blue in colour. Sometimes the whole stem was shaped from a colourless glass thread, which was wound into a snake-like loop. Small amounts of shards of these goblets have been discovered in Nordic towns, for example, Turku, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Bergen and Trondheim.
