Bowl

Unknown

possibly 16th century or later · Glass · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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.

Artist

Unknown

Date

possibly 16th century or later

Medium

Glass

Culture

Italian, Venice (Murano)

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891