Bowl ( ) |
Artist | Anonymous ( Italy) Unknown author |
Title | Bowl |
Description | English: The upper part of the bowl is embossed in relief with eighteen flutes, decorated with floral scrolls in gilding on a white ground. The rim and the intervals between the flutes are blue, with floral ornaments in gilding. The bottom of the bowl is of a white ground, embossed with eighteen gadroons, alternately blue and green, tapering towards the center with their arched tops spaced between the separations of the flutes above them. The gilt ornaments are the same as on the upper part. At the inner center of the bowl is an applied medallion of enamel, remade by André in Paris at the end of the 19th century, with the arms of the Mocenigo family: gules, a chevron azure, between three quatrefoils azure. The vasiform stem is blue, with eight white flutes in relief on the lower curve. The foot consists of a bell-shaped upper part, green, with floral and other ornaments in gilding, and of a depressed base, blue, decorated with a gilt scroll between two bands of running foliage. It is held in a copper-gilt rim. The inside of the foot is blue. |
Date | late 15th century date QS:P571,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 |
Medium | painted enamel on copper |
Dimensions | height: 27 cm (10.6 in); diameter: 32 cm (12.5 in) dimensions QS:P2048,27U174728 dimensions QS:P2386,32U174728 |
Collection | institution QS:P195,Q210081 |
Accession number | 44.203 |
Place of creation | Venice, Italy |
Object history | - Emile Gavet [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
- Sale, Paris, May 31, 1897, no. 719
- J. Egger [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
- Jacques Seligmann, Paris, November 3, 1905, by purchase
- 1906: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
- 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
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Exhibition history | 25th Anniversary Exhibition of European Masterpieces. The Washington County Museum, Hagerstown. 1956. Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass. Corning Museum of Glass, Corning. 1958. |
Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters, 1906 |
Source | Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork |
Permission (Reusing this file) | |