Footed Dish

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Object Name: 
Footed Dish
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
58.3.82
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6.3 cm; Rim Diam: 25.1 cm; Foot Diam: 11.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1525-1600
Primary Description: 
Footed Dish. Clear very bubbly glass with grey tinge, few impurities; free-blown, with applied decoration and gilded. Folded pedestal foot, applied shallow dish with rough pontil mark at bottom and curving rim; bulges are heightened by gilding: a leaf-and-tendril pattern, flanked by two wavy bands of buds.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Phillips, Howard, Source
1958
Category: 
Renaissance
Color: 
colorless
gray
gold
Technique: 
mold-blowing
glassblowing
applied decoration
gilding
Material: 
glass
gold

Exhibitions (1)

Beyond Venice: Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2004-05-13 through 2004-10-17

Publications (4)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass (1958) #49; BIB# 63296
Catalogue of English and Continental Glass and Paperweights (1955-12-20) no.110; BIB# 12082
Sotheby Sales Catalogue (1955-12) #110; BIB# 12082