bottle

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Object Type
Museum number: 1958,0403.1
Description: Bottle; opaque-white glass; globular body with clear pouring lip; enamelled coat of arms under coronet on neck; floral ornament in polychrome enamel; bowl encircled by landscape with three children and woman, Charity(?); enamelled inscription on underside of base.
Producer name
Production date: 1747
Production place: Factory in: Murano
Materials: glass; enamel
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 23.90 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Harden et al 1968 / Masterpieces of Glass (265); Tait 1979 / The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (214); Barovier et al 1982 / Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro (no. 304); Tait 1991 / Five Thousand Years of Glass (pl.228); Shirley and Thornton 2017 / A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum (p.153, fig.230)
Location: On display (G46/dc8)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1982 24 Jul-8 Dec, Italy, Venice, Museo Correr, Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia
Subjects: heraldry; myth/legend; child; flower; landscape; headgear/hairstyle; virtues and vices
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1958
Acquisition notes: Previously in the BM collection, reg.no 1872,0320.1, as part of the Slade collection. Rejected by Franks "as the genuineness of the painting doubtful".
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1958,0403.1
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1872,0320.1 (see acq.hist)

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