cake-plate
- Museum number
- 2007,8006.10
- Description
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Glass cake-plate, hand-blown in clear glass with 24-carat gold leaf encased in several layers within the glass. As the plate is blown and the glass has expanded, the gold leaf has cracked, forming transparent layers of gold leaf within the clear glass. The plate is flat with slight circular undulations; the foot is tooled in the 'Bone' shape (see 2007,8006.1a-b) with small cut-out indentation.
Created as part of the 'Bone' range of tableware.
- Production date
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1985 (designed in)
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2006 (made in)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 285 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The plate is free blown and formed using traditional hand tools. The technique of trapping gold foil between layers of glass goes back to the classical world. It was used in Venice in the Renaissance and revived there in the 19th and 20th centuries.
For Seguso's long relationship with Tiffany, and laer with Peretti, see entry for glass carafe, 2007,8006.8.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2009 1 May-2010 31 Jan, London, BM, Room 2, 'Elsa Peretti: Jewellery and objects for Tiffany & Co.'
- Acquisition date
- 2007
- Acquisition notes
- Given in honour of Elsa Peretti's 30 year anniversary with Tiffany & Co.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2007,8006.10