New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Filigrana Bowl

CultureItalian | Venetian

Date16th century

MediumGlass

DimensionsOverall: 10 5/8 x 3 3/8 in. (27 x 8.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Glass Purchase Fund

Object number2000.9.1

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-2, Case 6

DescriptionThis is a shallow, circular bowl in scalloped form with twelve large lobes, a low flaring foot drawn out from the body of the bowl itself and decorated throughout with opaque white filigree arranged 'vetro a retorti' (twisted) in an overall spiral gauze cable pattern, folded rim and foot, with a rough pontil.

ProvenancePrior to 1982, "property of a Belgian noble family,"; Christie's London (English and Continental Glass, May 26, 1982, Lot 248); Undisclosed private collection, 1982-2000; Christie's London (An Important Collection of Venetian and Façon de Venise Glass, March 28, 2000, Lot 216); Purchased by Chrysler Museum of Art with the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Art Purchase Fund. Published ReferencesGiovanni Mariacher. ITALIAN BLOWN GLASS FROM ANCIENT ROME TO VENICE. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. 1961: plate 47. Hugh Tait. THE GOLDEN AGE OF VENETIAN GLASS. London: The British Museum. 1979: 76-77, fig. 111. Rosa Barovier Mentasti. IL VETRO VENEZIANO. Milan, Italy: Electa. 1982: 80, fig. 64. Christie's. ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL GLASS-LONDON. Lot 248. London: Christie's. 05/26/1982: 248. David Battie and Simon Cottle, editors. SOTHEBY'S CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GLASS. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1991: 66. Dwight P. Lanmon and David B. Whitehouse. GLASS IN THE ROBERT LEHMAN COLLECTION. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1993: 81-87, figs. 25, 25.9, 25.10. Christie's. AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF VENETIAN AND FAÇON DE VENISE GLASS-LONDON. Lot 216. London: Christie's. 03/28/2000: 90.