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Pair of jugs

Glass

Anonymous

First half of the 18th century

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Jugs with a squat spherical body decorated with spiralling 'latticino' threads, with a cylindrical extension, widening to form the rim and with two large handles with pinched crests. The stands are trumpet-shaped with strengthened bases. These examples are testimony to the continuity during the 18th century of certain formative and decorative elements of Catalan glassware in the Venetian style of the previous two centuries. At that time, despite the popularisation of the shapes and the characteristic abandonment of Renaissance sophistication of the glassware influenced by Murano, the Catalan kilns kept certain aspects of that tradition active, superimposing them on objects of a marked autochthonous taste.

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Location

Room17 ,Floor1

9-10-11 Gothic Art

12-13-14 Renaissance

15-16 Textiles and Clothing

17 Glass

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PLACE OF EXECUTION

Catalonia

PERIOD

First half of the 18th century

Material

Glass blown with applied 'latticino' threads

Dimensions

13.5 x 11.3 x Ø6.9 cm; 14.1 x 11.5 x Ø6.7 cm

Origin

Provenance unknown

WORK NUMBER

MEV 1636, 1637