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Source Description
This dazzling carved, polished and engraved covered bowl is amusingly shaped as a duck and would have been judged by contemporaries as a triumph of artifice in the imitation of nature in such an unlikely and difficult material. Contemporaries would also have admired the virtuosity of the execution, not only in the carving but in the engraving of the feathers. By 1600, the skills in carving rock crystal associated with the workshops of Milan were also found at the courts of central Europe.
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Document identity
localId
37039
label
Covered Bowl in the Shape of a Duck
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obj
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object
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1
Source metadata
id
37039
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contentType
object
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normalized
title
Covered Bowl in the Shape of a Duck
description
This dazzling carved, polished and engraved covered bowl is amusingly shaped as a duck and would have been judged by contemporaries as a triumph of artifice in the imitation of nature in such an unlikely and difficult material. Contemporaries would also have admired the virtuosity of the execution, not only in the carving but in the engraving of the feathers. By 1600, the skills in carving rock crystal associated with the workshops of Milan were also found at the courts of central Europe.
provenance
Prince Baucino, Palermo; Jacques Seligmann, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
Bowl: ca. 1600; Mounts: 19th century
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Stone
bowls (vessels)
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1
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
6 7/16 in. (16.4 cm)
Source extras
style
Mannerism
med
rock crystal, glass, enamel
creator_ids
6211
33562
collection_ids
BAR
exhibition_ids
1994
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1
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0
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photo
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63864c2499176978