Footed Platter

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Object Name: 
Footed Platter
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
51.3.239
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8 cm; Rim Diam (max): 31.4 cm; Foot Diam (max): 12.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1600-1650
Primary Description: 
Footed Platter. Colorless and translucent blue glasses; blown, applied, tooled decoration, diamond-point engraved. Wide, flat plate with upcurved, fire-polished rim; applied pedestal foot with applied ribbon and flaring, infolded rim and pontil mark. Concentric bands of decoration on underside of plate: trailed chain in aqua glass applied midway between applied milled ribbons and outer diamond-point engraved floral band; on base, diamond-point engraved flowers and dots midway between infolded edge and applied ribbon.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Parke-Bernet Galleries, NYC, Source
1951-05-02
Bompard, Maurice (French, b. 1857), Former Collection
Veit, Mr. Russell C., Former Collection
Veit, Mrs. Russell C., Former Collection
Category: 
Renaissance
Color: 
colorless
blue
Technique: 
applied decoration
glassblowing
tooling
engraving
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass

Publications (5)

The illustrated encyclopedia of glass (2011) illustrated, p. 254; BIB# 128671
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1974) (1974) illustrated, p. 38, #40; BIB# 28793
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1965) (1965) illustrated, p. 38, #40; BIB# 27582
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1958) (1958) illustrated, p. 28, #34; BIB# 27746
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1955) (1955) illustrated, p. 29, #21; BIB# 28450