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Display plate
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Tuscany
    • Date:
      late 16th cent. - early 17th cent.
    • Materials:
      "reticello" glass
    • Dimensions:
      diameter 600 mm
    • Inventory:
      291
    • Display plate (Inv. 291)

This reticello plate lacks a foot and has a receding bottom. It is decorated with canes of lattimo glass that depart from the center and widen up to the external rim in a spiral course. This technique, which came into use in the Veneto in the second half of the sixteenth century, was also introduced at the Medici glassworks by Venetian glassmakers, particularly of Bartolo d'Alvise.