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A slender façon de Venise wine glass, second half of the 17th century

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

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A slender façon de Venise wine glass, second half of the 17th century

Of straw-coloured tint, the flared trumpet bowl set on a merese and a wrythen-ribbed hollow low inverted baluster stem, over a wide conical foot, 15.5cm 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: Collectie Bomers-Marres (2006), p. 21, cat. BM 42. A very similar glass is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession no. 5529-1859. Another similar example with a plain stem is illustrated by Paul Perrot, Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass: A Special Exhibition (1958), p. 98, cat. 105. Glasses with similar stems are illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg (1994), pp. 268-269, cats. 254-255.

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