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

Ewer with Stopper

Manufacturer Societa Salviata & Co. (Italian, 1866 - 1872)

CultureItalian | Venetian

Dateca. 1850-1877

MediumBlown glass | Flint glass

DimensionsOverall: 11 in. (27.9 cm)
Base: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.6714

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-4, Case 30

DescriptionEwer and stopper. Ewer of blown flint glass. Vitro di Trina with air traps. Tooled to a narrow dome foot. Decorated with a pink rim and pink rigaree band at the neck bottom and another half up. Applied matching handle with pink rigaree stripe and flower end. Petal of flower at handle end broken. Hollow stopper with pink rigaree and a berry finial. For related piece, see GEIM.58.37.18.

Label TextSocieta Anonima per azioni Salviati & Co. Venetian (1866-1877) Ewer with Stopper, ca. 1850-77 Blwon glass, applied and tooled Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.6714 A specific technique called vetro a reticello is seen on the Ewer. Here, opaque white rods of glass have been embedded on clear glass in a tightly crisscrossed pattern. This latticework effect is enhanced by the tiny air bubbles trapped between the threads of white glass. This technique was used in Venetian glasshouses beginning in the late-fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and it was revived in the nineteenth century. Added by: AGMPublished ReferencesStaatliche Museen zer Berlin 1977 catalogue, _Glas Historismus Und Die Historismen Um 1900_, Item #45, rather similar for Venetian-style revival. Merrill, Nancy O. _A Concise History of Glass Represented in the Chrysler Museum Glass Collection_ (Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum, 1989) 40, 190.