Jim Peake
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Lot 3
A façon de Venise wine glass, second half 17th century
19 November 2025, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£1,000 - £1,500
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A façon de Venise wine glass, second half 17th century
Low Countries or possibly English, the delicate conical bowl with a solid base, set on two collars above a hollow quatrefoil knop resting on a further merese, above a short plain section with a basal collar, the conical foot nearly folded at the edge, 13.5cm high
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Provenance
Kenneth Tughan Collection
Peter Eales Collection
In Roger Dodsworth's catalogue of the Durrington Collection (2006), p.8, Martin Mortimer notes how glasses of similar style were ordered by the London glass merchant John Greene from his Venetian supplier, Allesio Morelli, between 1667 and 1672. Whilst many glasses of this type are typically attributed to the Low Countries, an English origin cannot be ruled out. A similar glass from the Smith Collection and Harvey's Wine Museum is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.57, no.27 and another from the F Peter Lole Collection was sold by Bonhams on 5 June 2019, lot 8. A glass of related shape engraved with the arms of the Dukes of Bedford from the Peter Meyer Collection was sold by Bonhams on 1 May 2013, lot 1.