Six Wineglasses from the Count Minerbi Service

Description

These glasses and fingerbowl are part of a service in the Venetian style commissioned in 1906 by Count Lionel Hirschel de Minerbi for the Ca’ Rezzonico palace in Venice. The service totaled approximately 465 objects. Other glasses from the service are in the British Museum; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery; and the Cannon Hall Museum, Barnsley. The two silver-mounted centerpieces from the service are in the collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (90.2.3) and the Huntington Library and Art Collections (2014.16).

Six Wineglasses from the Count Minerbi Service

Harry James Powell

c. 1906

Accession Number

198239

Medium

Glass

Dimensions

2012.864.1: 17.2 × 8.6 cm (6 3/4 × 3 3/8 in.) 2012.864.2: 20.5 × 7.6 cm (8 1/16 × 3 in.) 2012.864.3: 19.05 × 7.3 cm (7 1/2 × 2 7/8 in.) 2012.864.4: 17.5 × 5.9 cm (6 7/8 × 2 5/16 in.) 2012.864.5: 14.9 × 5.9 cm (5 7/8 × 2 5/16 in.) 2012.864.6: 22 × 9.52 cm (8 11/16 × 3 3/4 in.)

Classification

drinking vessel

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Neville and John Bryan