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Jug

Jug

  • Place of origin:

    Venice, Italy (made)

  • Date:

    1475-1525 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Enamelled and gilt glass

  • Museum number:

    681-1884

  • Gallery location:

    Glass, room 131, case 7, shelf 2

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Jugs were meant for pouring drinks, but combined with a shallow basin they were also used for washing one’s hands before and in between courses at the dining table. This glass example was made in Venice by the famous glass-blowers on the island of Murano. The decoration in gold leaf and painted enamels was applied after the jug had been shaped and gradually cooled. After decorating, the piece went back into the mouth of the furnace, where the enamels would melt and fuse with the glass surface. Finally, the handle was attached. Once fired, the enamels could not be rubbed off the surface.

Place of Origin

Venice, Italy (made)

Date

1475-1525 (made)

Artist/maker

Unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Enamelled and gilt glass

Dimensions

Height: 19.0 cm, Width: 18.5 cm maximum

Descriptive line

Jug, Italy (Venice), , 1475-1525, 681-1884 .

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Exhibited: Mille Anni di arte de Vetro, Venice 1982. Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass, Corning Museum, 1958, cat No.48. Also, 'The Golden Age of Venetian Glass' Hugh Tait, tazza with similar decoration illustrated in fig.5. This style and palette are also found on a tazza in Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, in Frankfurt, cat.p66 no.122, and Lot 204, a bowl, sold at Sotheby's on 26th May 1981. Royal Ontario Museum - Annual Art and Archaeology Division, 1960, p69

Labels and date

There are two other objects in the glass collection with this style of enamelling; a dish, is on display on the mezzanine of the glass gallery (Bay 71, display no.2612), the other, a tazza, is on dispay in Gallery 19.

Categories

Glass; Drinking

Collection code

CER

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