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A façon de Venise winged wine flute, second half 17th century

21 May 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A façon de Venise winged wine flute, second half 17th century

The elongated flared funnel on a merese, the stem composed of a ribbed, twisted and coiled tube, flanked by two opposing applied turquoise-blue wings, on a flat folded foot, 27.9cm high

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Provenance: The Overduin Collection
The Seagram Collection, sold by Artcurial Paris, 15 March 2005, lot 4
With Kunstzalen A. Vecht, sold 27 May 2005
With Frides Laméris, sold 2005
With the Blumka Gallery, New York, sold circa 1958

Similar flutes are illustrated by Pieter van Eck and Henrica Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass in the Rijksmuseum Vol I (1993), p. 46, cat. 51, and by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg (1994), p. 351, cat. 352.

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