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An engraved façon de Venise winged wine glass, 17th century

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

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An engraved façon de Venise winged wine glass, 17th century

With diamond-point engraved decoration, the broad bowl engraved with formal flowers and foliate decoration, the hollow tapering stem applied with aquamarine winged handles with pincered decoration in clear glass, on a flat folded foot with further engraving, 15.5cm high

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

A glass of identical form but without engraving is illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg (1994), p. 263, cat. 243. Another example without engraving was sold by Christie's Amsterdam, 11 November 2003, lot 33. A glass with a similar stem and engraving to this, but a different shaped bowl, is again illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, p. 264, cat. 245. Glassware engraved in diamond-point in a similar style to this glass is also illustrated by Frides and Kitty Laméris, Venetiaans en Façon de Venise Glas 1500-1700 (1991), pp. 86-89, cats. 61-65. Glasses applied with 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, and by Hubert Vreeken, Glas in het Amsterdams Historisch Museum (1998), pp. 116-119, cats. 66-72.

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