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Stand
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Tuscany
    • Date:
      17th cent.
    • Materials:
      transparent glass
    • Dimensions:
      diameter 405 mm
    • Inventory:
      3802
    • Stand (Inv. 3802)

This stand has the usual round form with a smooth-rimmed platform mounted on a bell-shaped base that widens at the bottom. The shape is simpler than that of the analogous objects commonly found in the Veneto in the sixteenth century.