Bowl

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
62.3.121
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18.6 cm; Diam (max): 28 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1500-1599
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. Giles Whiting
Primary Description: 
Bowl. Colorless, with grayish tinge; translucent dark blue. Blown, mold-blown; applied. Bowl: wide (with pontil mark), curving to shoulder, then curving back slightly to wide, short cylindrical part with outfolded rim; spreading mold-blown (16 vertical ribs) foot has applied broad thread of deep blue glass. Second gather applied to base of bowl and mold-blown (12 ribs swirling left). Two blue threads applied to upper part of bowl and to edge of rim.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Whiting, Mrs. Giles, Source
Color: 
gray
translucency
dark blue
Technique: 
glassblowing
mold-blowing
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

Treasures in Glass (1966) illustrated, pp. 28-29, #36; BIB# 28036