Mosaic Bowl

late 19th-early 20th century

4.8 cm 17.3 cm

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Vincenzo Moretti, a glassmaker for Salviati, successfully produced glass bowls in the late 1870s using the ancient technique of mosaic glass. Makers of mosaic glass cut thin slices of from long, thin rods known as canes. The slices were placed side by side on a marble slab and...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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