Mosaic glass urn with silver leaf design
When Jarves wrote about his collection of Venetian glass in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine in 1881, he described this vessel as a “cinerary urn,” intended to hold the ashes of the dead. The splashy green flame and sparkly surface, created through the application of silver leaf, seem ill-suited to a funerary function.
Artwork Details
- Title: Mosaic glass urn with silver leaf design
- Maker: Possiibly Giuseppe Barovier (Italian, 1853–1942)
- Maker: Possibly Benvenuto Barovier (Italian, 1855–1932)
- Manufactory: Attributed to The Venice and Murano Glass and Mosaic Company Ltd. (Salviati & Co.) (Italian, 1859–1987)
- Date: ca. 1880
- Culture: Italian, Venice (Murano)
- Medium: Glass: blown-worked mosaic glass with applied hot-worked glass
- Dimensions: diameter at widest point, confirmed: 11 3/4 × 7 1/4 × 7 1/4 in. (29.8 × 18.4 × 18.4 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881
- Object Number: 81.8.213a, b
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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