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

Ewer

Manufacturer Unknown
Manufacturer Societa Salviata & Co. (Italian, 1866 - 1872)
CultureEuropean
Date1850-1899
MediumBlown glass
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)
Base: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Eugen Grabscheid
Object number58.37.18
Not on view
DescriptionEwer of blown colorless and white glass. Vetro a reticello with air traps. Tooled foot. Bulbous body and a long neck. Applied colorless rim and rigaree band on the shoulder. Applied matching handle with a colorless rigaree ridge terminating in a flower boss. Rigaree is missing from top of handle. Probably had a stopper originally. For a related piece (perhaps by the same maker) see GEIM.59.2.

Published ReferencesStaatliche Museen, Berlin, Catalog, _Glas Historismus Und Die Historismen Um 1900_, 1977, similar to item 45.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Societa Salviata & Co.
ca. 1850-1877
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
1885
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
20th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
late 19th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
ca. 1875
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
ca. 1950-1960
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
James Powell & Sons
ca. 1880-1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
ca. 1950-1960
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
ca. 1950-1960
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
W.H., B & J Richardson
ca. 1845-1850
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
ca. 1850
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
ca. 1900