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Object Name: 
Plate
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
2010.3.152
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 2.6 cm, Diam: 23.6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1868
Credit Line: 
Gift of Sheldon Barr and Thomas Gardner
Primary Description: 
Opaque milk-glass; blown, tooled, enameled. Milky-white plate with enameled border of garland and four cartouches around the outside and a center scene of two ladies walking with two gentlemen. The cartouches consist of: a lion with wings, two with buildings and one with a gondola.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Barr, Sheldon, Source
2010-11-12
Gardner, Tom, Source
2010-11-12
Color: 
opaque white
Technique: 
blown
tooling
enameling
Material: 
glass
enamel
Inscription: 
{initials? S over a V?}
inscription
: 
enameled On underside of plate possibly initials and S positioned vertically and intertwined with a V.
4506
label
: 
sticker On underside of plate Rectangular white sticker with black handwritten text and scotch tape.
Devers direx
signature
: 
enameled On underside of plate Enameled in brown, some loss to enamel of second word.

Exhibitions (1)

East Meets West: Cross-Cultural Influences in Glassmaking in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
West Bridge Show