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| Keywords: German - Covered Bowl in the Shape of a Duck - Walters 4175.jpg This dazzling carved polished and engraved covered bowl is amusingly shaped as a duck and would have been judged by contemporaries as a triumph of artifice in the imitation of nature in such an unlikely and difficult material Contemporaries would also have admired the virtuosity of the execution not only in the carving but in the engraving of the feathers By 1600 the skills in carving rock crystal associated with the workshops of Milan were also found at the courts of central Europe Bowl ca 1600; Mounts 19th century rock crystal glass enamel cm 16 4 accession number 41 75 37039 Prince Baucino Palermo Jacques Seligmann Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1914 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 place of origin north Italy Walters Art Museum license Glassware in the Walters Art Museum Baroque art in the Walters Art Museum German art in the Walters Art Museum Ducks in art Glass engraving Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
