Photo By Gail
This striking sky-blue Venetian glass ewer captures the imagination with its fantastical dragon-shaped handle — a signature flourish of the 19th-century Venetian glass revival. During this period, master glassmakers looked back to the opulence of Renaissance designs, reinterpreting them with new techniques and dazzling colors. Recently, novel conservation methods have been applied to this ewer, reviving its original luster and reminding us why Venice’s glassmaking tradition has been celebrated for centuries.
Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
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Photo By Gail
The designer of this Ewer has borrowed an elegant Islamic form from 14 century works of glass and metal work produced in Egypt and Syria. The pattern is Italian, an elegant filigree technique known as Lattcino, achieved by blowing the vessel with clear and white glass canes. The ewer was, however, likely made in northern Europe or France in a pervasive imitation of Italian glass call ‘in Venetian style.’
Photographed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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