Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy . /4 ia t /j c iC^Jl^ 804—Sixteenth Century Italian Lantern^^.3 Cylindrically shaped hand lantern for use id camp. Tale sidesmounted in pierced and chased bronze with wrought-iron carry- ing handle. 9 805- Sixteenth Century Italian Halberd i // f$s*-^Head with pierced crescent-shaped blade, straight pierced crowshill and long point, knop with two warriors5 heads in relief, all completely gilded. Long wooden shaft, covered with leatherstudde
Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy . /4 ia t /j c iC^Jl^ 804—Sixteenth Century Italian Lantern^^.3 Cylindrically shaped hand lantern for use id camp. Tale sidesmounted in pierced and chased bronze with wrought-iron carry- ing handle. 9 805- Sixteenth Century Italian Halberd i // f$s*-^Head with pierced crescent-shaped blade, straight pierced crowshill and long point, knop with two warriors5 heads in relief, all completely gilded. Long wooden shaft, covered with leatherstudded with brass-headed nails and with large tassel under thehead. (Ill ust rated). S3 o < H X Si O 0 o ^ W M — 3 < go o VENETIAN GLASS FROM THE MANUFACTORIES OF MURANO Although the glassworkers of Murano have flourished for someseven hundred years, it was not until the sixteenth century that theVenetian cristallo revolutionized the art of glassmaking throughoutEurope. It is significant, however, that the most characteristic ofthese earlier works of the Murano blowers, diaphanous to the point offragility, were yet comparatively simple in their forms and reliedrather on the exquisite pellucidity of the uncolored glass than on therainbow-like hues which we are wont to associate with their produc-tions. In the contemporary paintings, in the altarpieces of Bellini andCarpaccio, even in one of the Titians in the Louvre, the graceful tall-necked and globular-bodied decanters, the drinking glasses and theewers arc delightfully simple in their outlines. It is to the Muranesque uiass of this period and of this artisticcharacter that the collection here catalogued belo
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