description

Serving dish on foot (alzata) with cable of blue glass wire and diamond line engraving of flower branches. These glasses were used to present a drink, or were stacked with larger and smaller ones, into a high pile, for sweets or fruit.
Venice, around 1700. H : 6.1 cm, Ø Chalice : 21.8 cm

Provenance

Dutch private collection

Literature

The glass is depicted in Frides and Kitty Laméris, Venetian and façon de Venise glass, 1500-1700, Amsterdam 1991, cat.no. 65

Exhibition

The glass was exhibited in 1991 in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam during the exhibition Venetian en façon de Venise glass, 1500-1700, which was held in honor of the Amsterdam Venice year.

Detail Description

Flat dish with raised rim on a trumpet-shaped foot with turned-down rim. At the bottom of the bowl, a concentric cable of turquoise-blue glass runs between two ribbed glass wires. A glass thread runs around the narrowest part of the foot.

Round coarse pontil mark that has taken a piece out of the glass.



The outer rim of the bowl is decorated with a diamond line engraving of four branches with buds interrupted by four flowers. These flowers are typical of the late seventeenth century diamond line engraving: two with round petals and two with pointed. Where the edge rises, groups of four, five or six gidouilles have been applied.



Similar pieces are shown in: Gudmund Boesen, Venetian glass at Rosenborg castle, Copenhagen 1960, cat.nr. 98.

Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg, Die Sammlung Herzog Alfreds von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1844-1900), Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg Luca Verlag Lingen 1994, cat.no. 53-59