Plate

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Object Name: 
Plate
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
54.3.244
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4 cm; Rim Diam: 24.1 cm; Foot Diam: 9.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1500
Primary Description: 
Plate. Colorless. Blown; gilded, enameled. Curved, with broad, flat, outfolded rim and applied foot-ring; high “kick” and pontil mark on base. Below rim on outside, gilded arabesque frieze accompanied by blue and white dots in enamel paints; at center on inside, gilded circlet of bars accompanied by white and blue dots in enamel paints.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Pierpont Morgan Library, Source
1954-09-21
Category: 
Renaissance
Baroque
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
gilding
enameling
Material: 
glass
gold
enamel

Publications (1)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 71; BIB# 149619