Bowl

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Place Made: 
Italy
Accession Number: 
55.3.46 A
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 14.5 cm; Rim H: 8.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1900-1905
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. Herbert N. Strauss
Primary Description: 
Clear glass; free-blown, pattern-molded, enameled and gilded, with applied and tooled decoration. Bowl with straight walls, rough pontil mark, applied foot ring and folded rim; six snake-like dragons of slightly blue enameled glass with yellow and blue eyes and red tongues applied to the bowl, two of them serving as high projecting handles; spattered gold decoration on bowl and dragons.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Mrs. Herbert N., Source

Exhibitions (1)

Murano Glass in the Twentieth Century
Venue(s)
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 1983 through 1983

Objects in Set (5)

Bowl, 2 Compotes, 2 Candlesticks
Date:1900-1905
Accession Number:55.3.46
Compote
Date:1900-1905
Accession Number:55.3.46 B
 
Compote
Date:1900-1905
Accession Number:55.3.46 C
Candlestick
Date:1900-1905
Accession Number:55.3.46 D
 
Candlestick
Date:1900-1905
Accession Number:55.3.46 E