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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
Acquisition
Gift, 27/6/1940
Given by F.E. Andrews
Measurements
Height
(cm): 1.3
diam
(cm): 22.3
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 8
Techniques
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
Material
glass
Location
Gallery 04 : Case 04
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