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Object Name: 
Plate
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
66.3.38
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 1.9 cm; Rim Diam: 22.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1741
Web Description: 
This plate is enameled with a view of the Church of the Carità, Venice.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Nystad Antiquarie, Former Collection
1966
Category: 
Renaissance
Baroque
Color: 
opaque white glass
Technique: 
enameling
Material: 
glass
enamel

Description

Primary Description: 
Plate. Opaque white non-lead glass; enameled with a view of the Church of the Carita, Venice.

Exhibitions (1)

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill
Venue(s)
Yale Center for British Art 2009-10-15 through 2010-01-03

Publications (7)

In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-century British World (2020) illustrated, p. 30 (fig. 21);
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 34; BIB# 149619
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill (2009) illustrated, p. 5; BIB# 113252
Recent Important Acquisitions, 9 (1967) illustrated, p. 141, #45; BIB# AI97741
Recent Acquisitions of Glass by The Corning Museum of Glass (1967) illustrated, pp.588-589; BIB# AI84675
Glass Souvenirs of the Grand Tour (1963-06) illustrated, p. 669;
Souvenirs of the Grand Tour: Horace Walpole's Venetian Glass Plates (1959) illustrated, p. 76;