During the late 19th century, the Italian Risorgimento consolidated the peninsula’s disparate city states and formed the country of Italy that we know today. In order to deploy a shared national history and a common language upon which a united nation could emerge, artists systematically looked back to the ages that created the Italian ethos and made it a great nation: Ancient Rome and Renaissance Italy. Antonio Salviati engaged in this shared Italian culture by bringing back to Italy the fine art of glassmaking. This exquisite goblet, made circa 1880, shows why Salviati became responsible for reviving Murano’s status as the center for artistic glass throughout Europe.
During the late 19th century, the Italian Risorgimento consolidated the peninsula’s disparate city states and formed the country of Italy that we know today. In order to deploy a shared national history and a common language upon which a united nation could emerge, artists systematically looked back to the ages that created the Italian ethos and made it a great nation: Ancient Rome and Renaissance Italy. Antonio Salviati engaged in this shared Italian culture by bringing back to Italy the fine art of glassmaking. This exquisite goblet, made circa 1880, shows why Salviati became responsible for reviving Murano’s status as the center for artistic glass throughout Europe.
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Condition
Excellent. Very faint radial hairline to base.
For a detailed condition report, please contact us.
Provenance
The Paul Gresswell-Wilkins Collection
References
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.1143
Museum of Arts & Applied Sciences, A24
Literature
Aldo Bova, Rosella Junck, and Puccio Migliaccio, eds. The Colours of Murano in the XIX Century (Venice: Arsenale Editrice, 1999), p. 124 and 135 (model variants illustrated).
Carol M. Osborne, Venetian Glass of the 1890s: Salviati at Stanford University (Philip Wolfson Publishers, 2002), p. 149 and 194 (model variants illustrated).
Excellent. Very faint radial hairline to base.
For a detailed condition report, please contact us.
The Paul Gresswell-Wilkins Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.1143
Museum of Arts & Applied Sciences, A24
Aldo Bova, Rosella Junck, and Puccio Migliaccio, eds. The Colours of Murano in the XIX Century (Venice: Arsenale Editrice, 1999), p. 124 and 135 (model variants illustrated).
Carol M. Osborne, Venetian Glass of the 1890s: Salviati at Stanford University (Philip Wolfson Publishers, 2002), p. 149 and 194 (model variants illustrated).
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