Blue and golden-toned aventurine glass vase

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19th century · glass · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Aventurine, as its name suggests, is glass decorated with aventitius surface effects resembling the shining flecks of natural quartz. The decoration revives a seventeenth-century technique pioneered in the Murano (Venice) glasshouse of the Miotto family.

Artist

Unknown

Date

19th century

Medium

glass

Culture

Italian, Venice (Murano)

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881