Basket
As they spread throughout Early Modern Europe, Venice’s glassmaking techniques transformed ordinary tableware into a tantalizing variety of sophisticated and textured forms. Though the base of this Flemish basket was blown, the walls were formed by manipulating hot trails of glass into a lacelike structure. The basket was probably meant to hold a sugary dessert.
Artwork Details
- Title: Basket
- Date: 18th century
- Culture: probably Flemish
- Medium: Glass; blown, applied trails
- Dimensions: Confirmed: 4 1/4 × 8 3/8 × 7 1/8 in. (10.8 × 21.3 × 18.1 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1494
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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