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Vitrine

Glass and Hardstone · 91.1.1222

Vase with winged handles

17th century

Vase with winged handles
Medium
Glass
Date
17th century
Dimensions
18.7 cm high
Catalogue
91.1.1222
Credit
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
Indexed

Blown glass, worked hot: the handles are drawn from the same metal as the body and pinched into wings while still soft, which is why no join shows.1 The wall is thin enough that the colour reads as a tint rather than a glaze.

Footnotes

  1. The scroll-handled vase came to the museum in the same bequest and was accessioned ten numbers away, 91.1.1212; the two are catalogued apart here because the handles are the whole of the difference. ↩

Vase with winged handles

Fig. 1 · Vase with winged handles

References

Provenance
  • Edward C. Moore; his bequest to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1891
Exhibited
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on view in gallery 535
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