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A fine façon de Venise latticinio goblet, late 16th or 17th century

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

Sold for £16,875 inc. premium

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A fine façon de Venise latticinio goblet, late 16th or 17th century

Decorated in vetro a retorti with opaque white twists, the flared bell bowl with a pine-cone moulded globular base, set on a flattened hollow knop between mereses, on a high conical foot with a folded rim, 14.7cm high

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Provenance: The Overduin Collection
With Frides Laméris, sold 24 April 2006

This glass is similar in shape to Medieval beakers, which incorporated either prunts or a mould-blown pattern. Such decorations had the function of preventing the glass from slipping when handled with greasy hands during a meal. Here the effect is purely decorative, as the diner would have held the glass by its foot. This particular glass is illustrated by Frides and Kitty Laméris, Venetiaans en Façon de Venise Glas 1500-1700 (1991), pp. 74-75, cat. 46. Three versions of the same model of glass are illustrated by Ada Polack, Venetian Renaissance Glass: The Problems of Dating Vetro a Filigrana, in The Connoisseur, No. 774 (1976), p. 275. Glasses of this type are also illustrated by Hubert Vreeken, Glas in het Amsterdams Historisch Museum (1998), p. 112, cat. 57, and by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg (1994), pp. 231-232, cats. 201-203. Similar glasses are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession no. 1814-1855, and the Corning Museum of Glass, accession nos. 50.3.3 and 79.3.458. A glass of this type was sold by Christie's London, 16 November 2010, lot 12. Another example was excavated in Chester in 1884 when digging the foundations of the Grosvenor Museum, see Historic Glass from North West England (1979), p. 41, cat. D6.

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