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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

Sold for £10,625 inc. premium

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

The elongated flared funnel bowl on a merese, the asymmetrical stem composed of a ribbed convoluted tube, flanked on one side by a turquoise-blue glass wing and on the other by a clear glass wing, on a conical folded foot, 29.5cm high (minor loss to applied trailing on stem)

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Provenance: The Overduin Collection
The Bomers-Marres Collection
With Frides Laméris, sold 11 October 2006

This glass is illustrated by Anna and Kitty Laméris, Het Vormglas door de Eeuwen Heen: Collectie Bomers-Marres (2006), p. 26, cat. BM 24. Similar flutes can be found in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession no. 562-1903, and the National Gallery of Victoria, accession no. 1534-D5. Glasses with similar stems are illustrated by Hubert Vreeken, Glas in het Amsterdams Historisch Museum (1998), pp. 121-122, cats. 76 and 77, by Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), p. 63, cat. 75, and by Pieter van Eck and Henrica Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass in the Rijksmuseum Vol I (1993), p. 54, cat. 65.

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