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Name of Object:

Cup with serpentine stem

Name in original language:

Calice con stelo a serpente

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. 3013-3084

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, as 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 motif of glass filaments worked with pincers to look like crests, typical of the 17th century objects is used also in the ruby-red glass cup with snake-shaped stem of neo-baroque inspiration and dating from the second half of the 19th century. Its form is inspired by snake goblets common in Venice and Germany in the 17th century.

Citation of this web page:

Marina Minozzi "Cup with serpentine stem" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;226;en

Prepared by: Marina Minozzi
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT2 084

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