UNKNOWN GLASS MASTER, Italian
(active 1590s in Murano)

Covered compote dish

1590s
Glassware
Museo del Vetro, Murano

From the 16th century onward, one of the most famous and successful versions of Murano glass was the 'vetro a reticello' in which slender canes of opaque white glass were laid in a crisscross pattern to form fine netting, with a bubble of air in each lozenge. The picture shows a large covered compote dish of this type.




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