Bowl
This bowl’s unusual purple color and delicate shape would have attracted Moore as a designer and collector. To create the bowl’s subtle vertical ribs, the glassblower used a Venetian technique known as mezza stampatura, or "half mold," where the lower half of the piece was blown into a dip mold. The vessel was probably made in seventeenth or eighteenth-century Venice, when intense competition from glasshouses in England and Germany led to a decline in production.
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