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A façon de Venise winged wine glass, 17th century

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

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A façon de Venise winged wine glass, 17th century

The tall flared thistle-shaped bowl set on a knopped hollow inverted baluster stem between two mereses, the stem applied with opposing bright turquoise-blue winged handles with pincered ornament in clear glass, over a conical foot, 17.5cm high

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Provenance: The Overduin Collection
Anon. sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 6 April 2005, lot 9

A similar glass is illustrated by Hubert Vreeken, Glas in Het Amsterdams Historisch Museum (1998), p. 120, cat. 73. Glasses with very similar stems with applied winged handles but differently shaped bowls are illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald (1994), pp. 310-313, cats. 297-304, and by Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), p. 61, cat. 70. Similar glasses have been sold by Christie's Amsterdam, 2 November 2005, lot 16, and by Christie's London, 10 July 2007, lot 248.

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