Footed millefiori bowl

Vincenzo Moretti

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Salviati’s mosaics for the Basilica of San Marco helped to restore civic pride in Venetian monuments. Vincenzo Moretti began work at Salviati’s factory as a maker of the colorful glass pastes used in mosaics. He later turned his talents to millefiori glass. This bowl features Moretti’s signature pattern of tulips.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art