bowl

Object NameBowl

Maker La Granja de San Ildefonso

Made FromPresumably Non-Lead Glass

Dateabout 1820

TechniqueFree-blown, cut, gilded

SizeOverall H: 7.8 cm; Rim Diam (max): 12.3 cm; Base Diam (max): 5.5 cm

Accession Number50.3.83

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Place Made

possibly Spain; possibly Turkey, Beykoz

Physical DescriptionBowl. Presumably non-lead glass; free-blown, cut and gilded. Double- ogee bowl with drawn circular foot-like base having polished pontil mark; cut decoration: rim, scalloped in shallow curves and points; on sides, longitudinally bisected ellipses on large flat diamonds, two lunar slices below points of diamonds, and coronet-like trefoil motif between sides of diamonds at top and, at bottom, large "tear"; oval facets around side of base; on diamonds and lunes, gold leaves and tiny linear scrolls, and, on center of trefoil and on "tear", small flowers.
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