Pilgrim Bottle
ca. 1900 (made)
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Lentoid bottle, on ribbed, hollow foot above a low trumpet shaped foot with down-folded rim. The neck is slim above the body and wider, bucket-shaped at the top. Two attached S-shaped handles, the upper part of which is attached to an applied glass thread around the neck.
The bottle is painted with coloured enamels in green, yellow, white, blue and red. There are four birds surrounded with leaves and vines. The sacred monogram I.H.S. appears twice in the centre of the bottle on both sides.
The bottle is painted with coloured enamels in green, yellow, white, blue and red. There are four birds surrounded with leaves and vines. The sacred monogram I.H.S. appears twice in the centre of the bottle on both sides.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Glass, enamel, iridesence |
| Brief description | Pilgrim bottle of enamelled glass, probably made by Fratelli Toso, Murano, c.1900. |
| Physical description | Lentoid bottle, on ribbed, hollow foot above a low trumpet shaped foot with down-folded rim. The neck is slim above the body and wider, bucket-shaped at the top. Two attached S-shaped handles, the upper part of which is attached to an applied glass thread around the neck. The bottle is painted with coloured enamels in green, yellow, white, blue and red. There are four birds surrounded with leaves and vines. The sacred monogram I.H.S. appears twice in the centre of the bottle on both sides. |
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| Production | The design is copied from a Spanish original at the Museo Vetrario di Murano (Giulio Lorenzetti, Murano e l'arte del vetro soffiato; Guida del Museo Vetrario di Murano, Venice 1953, Pl. XVIII. A photograph of an example of this design, is incorporated in an photographically illustrated catalogue of the range of products by Fratelli Toso. It is bound as: Fratelli Toso, Album Disegno N. 1, undated and kept in the archives of the firm at Murano |
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| Accession number | C.79-1996 |
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| Record created | June 29, 1999 |
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