Pagliesco Decanter with Rigaree
Artist
Societa Salviata & Co.
(Italian, 1866 - 1872)
CultureItalian
Date1866-1872
MediumBlown and applied glass
Dimensions9 in. (22.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Marjorie Reed Gordon
Object number2022.21.15
Not on view
DescriptionPagliesco (straw-colored or amber-gray) glass. Trails of same color wrapped horizontally in three places and extending from the base vertically in six stripes, tooled with rippling effect (rigaree). Bulbous body with no foot; tall neck and everted rim. No surviving stopper.Published ReferencesIllustrated in Sheldon Barr’s Venetian Glass: Confections in Glass, 1855-1914, Harry Abrams Inc., New York, 1998, page 53.
late 19th - early 20th c.
