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Object NameFooted Dish (vetro a retortoli)

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1575-1650

TechniqueVetro a retorti

SizeOverall H: 14.2 cm; Rim Diam: 17.7 cm; Foot Diam: 9 cm

Accession Number61.3.139

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Renaissance Venice: Life and Luxury at the Crossroads

Place Made

Italy, Venice

Physical DescriptionFooted Dish (vetro a retortoli). Colorless, with grayish tinge; opaque white. Vetro a retorti. Shallow bowl worked into eight lobes, with fire-polished rim and ribbon of colorless glass applied to bowl at half height; joined by colorless glue-bit to symmetrical blown stem consisting of central spherical knop between two smaller knops, all worked from same piece of glass; joined by colorless glue-bit to blown pedestal foot with infolded edge and pontil mark.

Bowl, stem, and foot are decorated a retorti with alternating twists of two kinds. Cast off bands around bowl sinks into walls, thus showing relief on both exterior and interior; filigrana decoration is very accomplished; all threads end in center. Lobes are very regular.
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