Cobalt Chalice with Floral Knop
Artist
Salviati Dott. Antonio
(Italian, 1877 - 1890)
CultureItalian
Dateca. 1885
MediumBlown and applied glass
Dimensions13 in. (33 cm)
Credit LineGift of Marjorie Reed Gordon
Object number2022.21.19
Not on view
DescriptionDeep blue glass. Trumpet-shaped flute and blown foot; optic moldblown spiral-ribbed patterning. Applied decorations, rendered in deep blue glass with traces of hot-applied gold leaf: this threads wrapped below rim; two rigaree rows, with raspberry prunts between, at base of cup. Complex triple-knopped stem of colorless glass with traces of hot-applied gold leaf; three leaves (blue glass with traces of hot-applied gold leaf) and three flowers (colorless glass with traces of hot-applied gold leaf).
