Covered Bowl

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Object Name: 
Covered Bowl
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
2000.3.8 B
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 16.2 cm; Diam (max): 8.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1500-1599
Primary Description: 
Covered Bowl. Vessel: colorless, with grayish tinge; translucent blue. Mold-blown; applied, assembled. Lid: colorless; bubbly; gold. Mold-blown; applied. Bowl with cover. Cylindrical bowl with fire-polished rim and rounded, mold-blown (18 ribs) base, joined by glue-bit to flattened mold-blown knop of blue glass; attached directly to mold-blown (22 ribs) pedestal foot with dark blue ribbon applied to rim. Bowl is decorated with two horizontal blue bands applied at about one-third height, just above ribbing. Mold-blown domed cover with mold-blown flattened ball knop finial topped by applied prunt in dark blue glass that is partly gilded. Dome shows honeycomb pattern, with traces of gilding.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Christie's, Paris, Source
2000-03-28
Color: 
colorless
gold
blue
Technique: 
mold-blowing
applied
gilding
Material: 
glass
gold
Inscription: 
409
mark
: 
edge of foot (a); underside (b) white ink

Exhibitions (1)

Title Unknown (Musée Ariana, Geneva)

Publications (3)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 43 (2001) illustrated, p. 198, fig. 9, right; BIB# AI53002
An Important Collection of Venetian and Facon deVenise Glass, sale #6272 (2000-03-28) p. 20, lot 35; BIB# 95477
Verre de Venise: tresors (1995) illustrated, pp. 29, 89, #169; BIB# 36397

Objects in Set (2)

Covered Bowl
Date:1500-1599
Accession Number:2000.3.8 A
2 Covered Bowls
Date:1500-1599
Accession Number:2000.3.8