Dichroic Casting Bottle
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Dichroic Casting Bottle
Place of OriginItaly, Venice; England
Dateabout 1580
DimensionsH: 5 × Diam: 2 1/8 × Base Diam: 1 7/8 in. (12.7 × 5.4 × 4.8 cm)
MediumTranslucent blue dichroic glass; blown, chased silver mount.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
2005.286A-B
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 15
DescriptionThe ovoid glass body mounted with a spreading foot engraved with a band of shaded arabesques within a molded border; the body enlaced by three vertical straps with scalloped edges and engraved stylized flowerheads; the waisted neck engraved with arabesques above a band of stiff foliage, with two applied lugs, the domed cover pierced and engraved with a stylized flowerhead.
Published ReferencesSale, Fine English and Continental Silver and Objects of Vertu, Tuesday, October 25, 1988, lot 420.
Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, repr. (col.) p. 92-93.
Exhibition HistoryTrento, Castello del Buonconsiglio - Castel Thun, L'Avventura Del Vetro dal Rinascimento al Novecento tra Venezia e mondi lontani, 2010, no. III.1, pp. 38, 511, repr. (col.) fig.1, p. 38 and p. 339.about 1720-1725
Mughal period, second half of the 18th century
Pierre Delabarre
Glass: before 1630; Mount: c. 1630; Case: c. 1700
13th century
13th century
13th century
13th century
Late 13th century
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