Pagliesco Decanter with Rigaree
Artist
Societa Salviata & Co.
(Italian, 1866 - 1872)
CultureItalian
Date1866-1872
MediumMold-blown and applied glass
Dimensions10 in. (25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Marjorie Reed Gordon
Object number2022.21.16A
Not on view
DescriptionPagliesco (straw- colored or amber-gray) glass. Bulbous body with no foot; tall neck and everted rim. Three trails of same color wrapped horizontally; six trails extending vertically from the base; tooled rippling effect (rigaree); raspberry prunts applied at the shoulder of the vase. Vessel has optic moldblown ribbed patterning. Trails and prunts have traces of hot-applied gold leaf.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.
