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Object NameJug

Made FromGlass

Date1881-1910

TechniqueBlown, trailed and dragged (decoration), applied

SizeOverall H: 6.6 cm, Diam (max): 6.9 cm; Rim Diam: 4.9 cm

Accession Number95.3.55

Credit LineGift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

The object is an imitation of a Hellenistic or earlier core-formed vessel with trailed decoration that was dragged up and down to create a feather-like effect. Although it is not closely similar to any ancient object, the outside has been treated to give it the appearance of antiquity. Interest in ancient glass increased rapidly in the period between about 1870 and 1910, when the Niessen, Gréau, and Sangiorgi collections were being formed in Europe, and the Moore and Curtis collections in the United States. As well as genuine objects, many forgeries and imitations appeared on the market. In Murano, imitations were produced by Antinio Salviati and by the Compagnia di Venezia e Murano; the first documentd exhibition of such objects appears to have been in Milan in 1881 (L. F. Bolaffo, "Antonio Salviati e la Sua Industria", in Milano -- L'Esposizione Italiana, Milan, 1881). Cf. Sidney M. Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass, 1979, pp. 292-294, nos. 893-900.

Place Made

Europe

Physical DescriptionDeep blue translucent glass, with trails of opaque yellow, light blue and red (cf. sealing wax); blown, trailed and dragged (decoration), applied (handle). Jug: broad pear-shaped body. rim everted and rounded by folding out, up, and in; neck short, merging with wall; disk-shaped foot, with rounded edge made by folding, and shallow kick; pontil mark (small mass of colorless glass). Trailed decoration: on rim, red lip-wrap with continuous yellow trail over it; on wall, thick light blue trail wound spirally aboutfive and a half times around circumference, with yellow trail applied over it, dragged nine times alternately up and down. Finally, handle of dark blue glass with streaks of red and yellow dropped onto edge of rim and bent down and in, and reattached to shoulder, with excess glass drawn down wall and crimped. Exterior dull and pitted, with patches of pitting.
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