Murrine urn with silver leaf ca. 1880 Italian, Venice (Murano) When Jarves wrote about his collection of Venetian glass in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine in 1881, he described this vessel as a “cinerary urn,” intended to hold the ashes of the dead. The splashy green flame and sparkly surface, created through the application of silver leaf, seem ill-suited to a funerary Murrine urn with silver leaf. Italian, Venice (Murano). ca. 1880. Glass. Glass

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