Accession number
HCL 022
Date made
16th or 17th century AD
Materials
Glass; Metal (gilded)
Collection
Dimensions (cm)
Provenance
File of material relating to a green glass vase. Includes photocopy of object description sheet which includes sketch of object (date unspecified); transcription of text of label which described object in foundation building display (c. 1996); photocopy of extract from publication, possibly an exhibition catalogue, by John Ingamells entitled 'The Wallace Collection' (London: Scala Books, 1994) which contains description and image of similar ewer; Hunt Museum object comment sheet (27 June 1996) which contains comments by Hugh Tait, formerly of the British Museum, about object. Describes it as a marriage of parts. Further comments that the ewer originally had a foot of glass. Its broken edges are visible through the stem of the foot; letter 15 February 1995) from Mary Boydell (address withheld), to Mairead Dunlevy, Director, Hunt Museum, to enclose letter (9 February 1995) to her (Boydell) from Tait, Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum, thanking her for slide which comprises image of present object. Makes some remarks about possible uses of object. Further comments that, '... the Hunts were not so interested in glass and the attribution of this piece to a Spanish workshop may have been due to the metal mounts. However, today it would be a bold man who dared to claim that these mounts were more Spanish in character than Italian, especially in the period c. 1600-c. 1650.' In letter (9 February 1995), Tait puts forward several opinions about the ewer but none is definitive. It is clear, from reading the letter, that he had at this point not examined the object, only an image, and this prevented him from coming to more definitive conclusions; photocopy of extract from publication, probably exhibition catalogue by William B. Jordan and Peter Cherry entitled 'Spanish Still Life from Velázquez to Goya' (National Gallery, London, 1995).
Category
Copyright Attribution
Late Renaissance jug | Glass, Metal (gilded) | 16th or 17th century AD | The Hunt Collection | PD