Lattimo Plate with a View of the Grand Canal, Venice

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Lattimo Plate with a View of the Grand Canal, Venice

Manufacturer Miotti Family Glasshouse "Al Gesù" (Italian, ca.1600- ca.1800)

Place of OriginVenice, Italy (Murano)

Dateabout 1741

DimensionsDiam: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm)

MediumMilk-glass (porcellana contrafacta); blown, tooled, painted with red iron oxide enamel, fired.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

2006.175

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 4

Label TextThe view of Venice painted on this plate is after a 1735 engraving by Antonio Visentini. The engraving copies an oil painting by Canaletto (Antonio Canal), entitled The Grand Canal Looking South-west from the Rialto to Ca’ Foscari, of 1725–26. The plate is probably part of the set commissioned by Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle (1720 –1794) during his Grand Tour of Italy.Published ReferencesChristie's London, Important British and Continental Ceramics and Glass Including Meissen Porcelain from The Royal House of Saxony, December 18, 2006, lot 47.

Sotheby's London, May 2, 1952, lot 5.

Christie's, Manson, & Woods, Catalog of the Remaining Contents of the Mansion of Clumber, October 19, no. 193, lot 76.

Charleston, Robert, "Souvenirs of the Grand Tour", Journal of Glass Studies, vol. I, 1959, p. 67, no. 32.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Phillips, 16th September 1998, lot 6; Bonhams, 22th May 2002, lot 229. George Robins (auctioneer),'a Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill,"April 25, 1842, lots 41-44. Cf. engraving: Michael Levey, "Canaletto's Fourteen Paintings and Visentini's Prospectus Magni Canali," The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 104, No. 713 (Aug., 1962), pp. 333-339+341.