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A Venetian or façon de Venise 'nef' or ewer in the shape of a ship, second half 16th century image 1
A Venetian or façon de Venise 'nef' or ewer in the shape of a ship, second half 16th century image 2
A Venetian or façon de Venise 'nef' or ewer in the shape of a ship, second half 16th century image 3
Lot 21

A Venetian or façon de Venise 'nef' or ewer in the shape of a ship, second half 16th century

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£5,000 - £8,000

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A Venetian or façon de Venise 'nef' or ewer in the shape of a ship, second half 16th century

The curious oval bowl with a spout at one end tipped in blue, the other end with traces of a remaining handle featuring a yellow glass inclusion, applied with on each side with a moulded demon mask bearing traces of gilding, and blue glass raspberry prunts, the rigging represented by trailed zig-zags in clear glass and blue glass, raised on a hollow fluted knop between mereses and a spreading folded foot, 29cm high (some losses to rigging and to the handle)

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Provenance:
The property of an Italian Noblewoman

Venetian glass nefs are traditionally said to have been first made in Murano by Ermonia Vivarini from 1521. Georgius Agricola described a vessel in the form of a ship in his De re metallica published in Basel in 1556, probably referring to examples made in other parts of Europe a la façon de Venise. Related examples in published collections include specimens in the British Museum (1855,1201.197), the Corning Museum of Glass (2009.3.8), the Milwaukee Art Museum (M1988.135), the Museo Vetrario Murano (cl.VI, n.554), the Museum of Applied Arts, Prague, and the Bayerischen Nationalmuseum Munich (G525 no.48). The rigging on the present example probably supported a whistle in the shape of a fish or a horn.

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