Name of Object:

Little jar with crested handle

Name in original language:

Brocchetta con ansa crestata

Location:

Rome, Italy

Holding Institution:

Museo Artistico Industriale, National Gallery of Ancient Art in Palazzo Barberini

 About MIBACT | Collection of former Museum of Industrial Art (M.A.I.), Rome

Holding Institution (original language):

Museo Artistico Industriale presso la Galleria nazionale d’arte antica in Palazzo Barberini

Date of Object:

Second half of the 19th century

Author:

Murano manufacture

Inventory Number:

Inv. 4181

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Glass

Description:

The Museum of Industrial Arts (M.A.I.) was established in 1872 in Rome as a collection of manufacts (glasses, majolica, sculptures, materials, photographs, metals, casts and other) from antiquity to 19th century and as a training school for specialising artisans. The concept was part of the process of revaluation of the so-called "minor arts". Venetian glass has a long history, inherited from the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic tradition in the Middle Ages. The tendency of Murano's industries in using bizarre shapes, often of zoomorphic inspiration, gave life to manufacts not so much functional as extremely representative of the decorative needs, and it was very successful. The motif of glass filaments worked with pincers to look like crests, typical of the 17th century objects, is used also in the little ruby-red jar with gold leaf from the second half of the 19th century and resembling objects from Cinquecento and Seicento.

Citation of this web page:

Marina Minozzi "Little jar with crested handle" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;225;en

Prepared by: Marina Minozzi
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT2 083