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A large façon de Venise goblet, late 16th or early 17th century

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

£8,000 - £10,000

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A large façon de Venise goblet, late 16th or early 17th century

Of dark tint, the large cylindrical straight-sided bowl with an applied and pincered trail at the base, set on a merese, the stem comprising a ribbed and gilded cushion knop set on a merese between two plain sections, above a plain cushion knop, over a conical folded foot, 15.3cm high

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Provenance: The Overduin Collection
The Bomers-Marres Collection
With Frides Laméris, sold 1 October 2006

This glass is illustrated by Anna and Kitty Laméris, Het Vormglas door de Eeuwen Heen (2006), p. 10, cat. BM 22. Its production has been attributed to Hall-in-Tirol by Frides Laméris. It has a number of similarities in shape to Venetian reliquary glasses, which were sometimes employed as containers for relics. Glasses with bowls of similar shape are illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg (1994), cats. 224, 262, 267 and 312.

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