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Vase

1650-1760 (made)
Place of origin
Venice (made)

Vase, blown glass with porcelain figure, Italy (Venice), 1650-1760

Object details

Object type
Vase
Materials and techniques
colourless glass, inside on a bulb of blue glass is a porcelain figure of a boy.
Brief description
Vase, blown glass with porcelain figure, Italy (Venice), 1650-1760
Dimensions
  • Height: 23.0cm
  • Greatest width width: 22.0cm
conversion size only
Style
ITALY
Object history
Bought from the Bernal Collection.
Bibliographic references
  • Trasparenze e riflessi : il vetro italiano nella pittura / a cura di Rosa Barovier Mentasti ; testi di Rosa Barovier Mentasti ... [et al.], Ed. fuori commercio Publisher: [Verona] : Banca popolare di Verona e Novara, c2006, pp. 154-157 For other examples of this type of water vessel, including on paintings, with a blue bulb inside.
  • Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald , Venezianisches Glas der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Lingen 1994, pp. 514-15, cat. 655-656 Two similar vases with rib-moulded vertical flutes, one with its original cover.
  • Frides Lameris Antiques, The Van Beek collection; Passion for glass, Amsterdam 2015, cat. 15, pp. 58-65 For another, ribbed, example of this type of water vessel with a blue bulb inside. The optical effect is explained and it includes a series of photographs illustrating how a vessel like this was made.
Other number
8533 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
1902-1855

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O519/vase/
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