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Footed Ribbon Bowl

Footed Ribbon Bowl

 
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Object Name: 
Footed Ribbon Bowl
Department
European
Category
19th Century European
Maker(s)
Venice and Murano Glass Company ((1872-1877)), Maker
Moretti, Vincenzo, Maker
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Date: 
about 1881
Color
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colorless
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multicolored
Technique
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mosaic glass
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6 cm; Rim Diam: 11.25 cm; Foot Diam: 5.75 cm
Accession Number: 
50.3.76
Location: 
On Display
Description
Mosaic glass -- clear glass with varicolored stripes. Hemispherical bowl with applied short flaring pedestal-type circular foot; bowl and foot divided into four zones by stripes of alternating square pale amethyst "stars" and yellow squares and edged with paired fine white spirals, stripes crossing at center bottom on bowl; in each zone on bowl: chevron stripes from center to rim, -- moonstone, French blue with mask at point, white spiral in pale amethyst, alternate yellow and amethyst star, amethyst with medial white vein, yellow, moonstone, alternate yellow and amethyst star, French blue, moonstone, yellow triangle; on rim white twist in pale amethyst; in each zone on foot, moonstone chevron, French blue with amethyst "star" at point, amethyst with white vein, mask; rim-like bowl.
Inscription
VM
Provenance
Macbeth, George D., Source to 1950-10-01

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Exhibitions

Reflecting Antiquity: Modern Glass Inspired by Ancient Rome
Venue(s)
J. Paul Getty Museum 2007-10-18 through 2008-01-14
Corning Museum of Glass 2008-02-15 through 2008-05-27

Publications

The Yearning for Venetian Glass: Beauty that Traversed Oceans and Time (2011) illustrated, p. 18, fig. 2;
Ancient Roman Glass and Its Legacy Explored at Corning Museum of Glass (2008-04) illustrated, p. 65;
Modern Glass Inspired By Ancient Rome (2008-02-22) illustrated, p. 2;
Ancient Mosaic Glass or Modern Reproductions? (2001) pp. 115-139; p. 129, fig. 14;
The many facets of Victorian glass (1993-10) p. 121;
Miniature di vetro: murrine 1838-1924 (1990) illustrated, p. 122, #931; BIB# 33778
Miniature di vetro: murrine 1838-1924 (1990) illustrated, p. 122, #931; BIB# 33778
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) p. 297, #907; BIB# 29547
Forgeries and Reproductions of Ancient Glass in Corning (1977) illustrated, pp. 42-62, fig. 7;

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