Covered Bowl

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Object Name: 
Covered Bowl
Place Made: 
probably Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
73.3.440
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 28 cm; Rim Diam: 19 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1800-1899
Primary Description: 
Transparent non-lead glass of distinct yellowish tint; blown. (a) Cylindrical shape with two applied solid loop handles with pincered quilling; six applied pink and opaque white flowers (three on each side, between handles); flat base, trailed foot ring; rough pontil mark on underside of base. (b) Domed shape with folded flange, cylindrical rim; finial on top composed of a hollow flattened ball, between disk-shape mereses, and pincered decoration consisting of curved, spiral-molded rods, connected at the top, with pincered decoration of a pink-and-white flower on a curved stalk, between the upright rods; two pincered leaves, topped by a pink-and-white flower; rough pontil mark on inside of lid.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
Ginsburg and Levy Inc., Former Collection
1973
Color: 
Transparent, yellowish tint
transparency
Technique: 
blown

Publications (1)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 57, 67; BIB# 149619