Bowl
1575-1625 (made)
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Wide bowls were used in Italy in the Renaissance period to serve and display fresh fruit. This glass example was made in Venice by the famous glass-blowers on the island of Murano. They used colourless glass, into which they incorporated opaque white glass 'canes' during the glass-blowing process. Glass-workers prepared the canes in advance by drawing out a blob of molten glass to form a long thread. This thread would cool very quickly, after which the glass-worker could break it into short sections. These were neatly arranged in a mould or on a flat surface, so the glass-maker could pick them up on a bubble of molten colourless glass.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Filigree mould-blown glass |
| Brief description | Bowl, blown filigree glass, Italy (Venice),1575-1625 |
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| Credit line | Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street |
| Production | Cf. Shape, with different retorti patterns: G. Mariacher, Le raccolte vetrarie del Museo Civico di Trieste, Venice 1960, p. 21, fig. 17 (ca. same size= H. 9cm, Diam. 27 cm.) as Venice, 17th century. Cf. shape, some pieces with 'a freddo' painting: Barovier-Mentasti 1982, no 64. |
| Summary | Wide bowls were used in Italy in the Renaissance period to serve and display fresh fruit. This glass example was made in Venice by the famous glass-blowers on the island of Murano. They used colourless glass, into which they incorporated opaque white glass 'canes' during the glass-blowing process. Glass-workers prepared the canes in advance by drawing out a blob of molten glass to form a long thread. This thread would cool very quickly, after which the glass-worker could break it into short sections. These were neatly arranged in a mould or on a flat surface, so the glass-maker could pick them up on a bubble of molten colourless glass. |
| Bibliographic reference | Ajmar-Wollheim, Marta and Flora Dennis, At Home in Renaissance Italy, London: V&A Publishing, 2006.
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| Other number | 8396 - Glass gallery number |
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| Accession number | 5221-1901 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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