Vetro a reticello charger

Italy (Venice)

c. 1600

Glass

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Vetro a reticello is among the most complex and difficult techniques in the craft of glass blowing. Plates and chargers with reticello decoration were made in Venice from the second-half of the 16th century to the end of the 17th century. This charger is one of only a very few large Venetian vetro a reticello chargers in existence. Gallery G332 Gift of funds from Beverly N. Grossman in honor of Dorothy Berenson Blau