Bowl
This bowl’s unusual purple color and delicate shape would have attracted Moore as a designer and collector. To create the bowl’s subtle vertical ribs, the glassblower used a Venetian technique known as mezza stampatura, or “half mold,” where the lower half of the piece was blown into a dip mold. The vessel was probably made in seventeenth or eighteenth-century Venice, when intense competition from glasshouses in England and Germany led to a decline in production.
Artwork Details
- Title: Bowl
- Date: 17th or 18th century
- Culture: Italian, Venice (Murano)
- Medium: Glass; blown and molded, a stampatura
- Dimensions: Confirmed: 4 3/4 × 9 1/4 in. (12.1 × 23.5 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1431
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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