Terms and conditions of use
Bowl
(c. 1677)
- Medium
- glass (applied decoration)
- Measurements
- 6.0 × 17.6 cm diameter
- Place/s of Execution
- England
- Inscription
- impressed in outside rim above base l.c.: (raven's head)
- Accession Number
- D153-1973
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
William and Margaret Morgan Endowment, 1973
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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In 1673 the merchant and entrepreneur George Ravenscroft opened the Savoy Glasshouse on the Strand in London, taking out a seven-year patent to produce, in his own words, a ‘perticuler sort of Christaline Glasse resembling rock Christall’. In order to counter the cloudy, crizzling effect of his early glass, Ravenscroft began adding lead oxide to his formula, effectively creating a new material and transforming the British glass industry with his vastly improved type of ‘metal’. The heavy and slow-cooling lead glass admirably suited a simple but elegant style and achieved a glass body of great clarity, with a high refractive index and distinctive appearance.
- Physical description
- Flared sides with 12 ribs, base milled border, underside 12 radiating ribs, seal applied to border.
