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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Glass, Room 131

Fork

1675 - 1725 (made)
Place of origin
Venice (made)

Fork, hot-worked glass, Italy (Venice), 1675-1725


Object details

Object type
Fork
Materials and techniques
glass, tooled and pincered
Glass
Brief description
Fork, hot-worked glass, Italy (Venice), 1675-1725
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.0cm
Style
ITALY
Bibliographic references
  • Cf. Bellanger, Verre d'usage..., p. 456: shows comparable spoon in the Louvre, said to be Venice or France and of same date as out fork; and similar but more crudely made fork in Compiègne, said to be Façon c17th. Some knifes and a simolar fork in the Museo Vetrario, Murano, D. Heikamp 1986, fig. 156
  • Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Catalogue Vol I, cat 86 for a fork of similar shape.
  • G. Boesen, Venetian glass at Rosenborg castle, Copenhagen, 1960, cat. 31-33 for a Venetian glass knife, spoon and fork in filigree glass, of slighly different shape.
Other number
8569 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
160-1865

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O347/fork/
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