Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Plate

Plate, opaque white (lattimo) glass, rim plain, well painted with a circular view in iron-red enamel filling the whole surface within double red lines, and depicting the Grand Canal, Venice, with gondolas etc. in foreground the Chieza Degli Scalzi on right, S. Simeone Piccolo on left and the Fondamenta della Croce in the distance. The source is Antonio Visentini Prospectus Magni Canalis Venetani -- Pictis ab Antonio Canale (in Aedibus Josephi Smith Angli 1735 no XI...Original oil painted for Smilth c.1730 and now in Royal Collection, Windsor.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 50513

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Place: Venice
Period: 1741

Acquisition

Gift, 27/6/1940

Measurements

Height (cm): 1.3
diam (cm): 22.3
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 8

Techniques

Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Glass

Location

On Display

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