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Source Description
Salviati & Company produced faithful copies of ancient vessels, but the firm was also known for original fanciful designs. New creations, such as this ewer, combined the styles and techniques of ancient Egypt with forms associated with Renaissance Venice. In ancient Egypt, vessels were formed by heating powdered glass in a furnace around a clay core. Once the glass had melted around the core, glassmakers trailed threads of molten glass around the vessel and combed the trails with a pointed tool to create patterns. The ewer combines the ancient trailing and combing techniques with the later technique of glass blowing to produce an entirely new effect.
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Document identity
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35869
label
Ewer
core
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dtoType
object
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
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35869
sourceUrl
contentType
object
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normalized
title
Ewer
description
Salviati & Company produced faithful copies of ancient vessels, but the firm was also known for original fanciful designs. New creations, such as this ewer, combined the styles and techniques of ancient Egypt with forms associated with Renaissance Venice. In ancient Egypt, vessels were formed by heating powdered glass in a furnace around a clay core. Once the glass had melted around the core, glassmakers trailed threads of molten glass around the vessel and combed the trails with a pointed tool to create patterns. The ewer combines the ancient trailing and combing techniques with the later technique of glass blowing to produce an entirely new effect.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
late 19th-early 20th century
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Glasswares
ewers (vessels)
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1
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 5 1/2 in. (13.97 cm) approx.
Source extras
med
glass
creator_ids
2824
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
2003
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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