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A façon de Venise winged wine glass, 17th century

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

Sold for £3,750 inc. premium

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A façon de Venise winged wine glass, 17th century

The cup-shaped bowl set on a hollow baluster stem between two mereses, flanked by bright turquoise-blue applied winged handles with pincered ornament in clear glass, on a flat foot, 13.2cm high

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Provenance: The Overduin Collection
With Polak Works of Art, sold 5 January 2004

Glasses with applied handles of similar shape are illustrated by Pieter van Eck and Henrica Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass in the Rijksmuseum Vol I (1993), pp. 48-50, cats. 54-59, by Hubert Vreeken, Glas in het Amsterdams Historisch Museum (1998), pp. 116-119, cats. 66-72, and by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg (1994), pp. 295-299, cats. 284-288 and 291-295. Other glasses with hollow inverted baluster stems of similar form are also illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, pp. 258-260, cats. 234-238.

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