Goblet

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V&A South Kensington
Glass, Room 131

Artist/Maker	Salviati & C. (manufacturer)
Place of origin	Venice (made)

19th-century Murano goblet with ruby glass bowl and aventurine (translucent glass with sparkling inclusions of gold-, copper-, or chromic oxide-powder) in the stem, imitating Venetian glass of the 1600s.

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Categories	Glass Drinking
Object type	Goblet
Materials and techniques	Ruby glass bowl, aventurine inclusions in stem Glass Aventurine Glass Blown
Brief description	Goblet, Italy (Venice, Murano), made by Salviati & C., 1866-1868
Physical description	19th-century Murano goblet with ruby glass bowl and aventurine (translucent glass with sparkling inclusions of gold-, copper-, or chromic oxide-powder) in the stem, imitating Venetian glass of the 1600s.
Dimensions	Height: 33.5cm Maximum width: 12.0cm
Styles	19TH CONT FACON DE VENISE
Gallery label	(1987-2006) 'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900' This display piece, imitating Venetian glass of the 1600s, was bought in 1868, probably from the manufacturer. The Venetian glass industry had declined by about 1800, but was revived in the 1860s. The lawyer Antonio Salviati founded a glasshouse with English backing in 1866, employing the best workmen to make pieces imitating glass produced in Venice between 1500 and 1700. These were much admired, particularly in Germany and in England, where the writer John Ruskin condemned the fashion for cut glass because it obscured the ductile nature of the material.
Object history	This display piece, imitating Venetian glass of the 1600s, was bought in 1868, probably from the manufacturer.
Historical context	The Venetian glass industry had declined by about 1800, but was revived in the 1860s. The lawyer Antonio Salviati founded a glasshouse with English backing in 1866, employing the best workmen to make pieces imitating glass produced in Venice between 1500 and 1700. These were much admired, particularly in Germany and in England, where the writer John Ruskin condemned the fashion for cut glass because it obscured the ductile nature of the material.
Production	The lawyer Antonio Salviati founded his own blowing furnace in 1866.
Other number	9394 - Glass gallery number
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	882-1868

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Record created	December 13, 1997
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1896/goblet-salviati--c/

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