UNKNOWN GLASS MASTER, Italian
(active 1470s in Murano)

Decorated glass plate

1470s
Glass, enamel
Castello di Buonconsiglio, Trent

At the end of the fifteenth century, the most refined Murano glass, whether coloured or not, after having been shaped, was entrusted to painters who specialised in the art of decoration with polychrome fusible enamels and gold leafs.

The present amethyst glass plate is decorated with fusible enamels.