Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 9
A façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine glass, 17th century
5 June 2019, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £8,812.50 inc. premium
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Fergus Gambon
Director
A façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine glass, 17th century
The small conical bowl on a wide merese, supported by an extraordinary stem formed from a slender rope of glass containing spiral threads of white and blue, looped symmetrically into curlicues, applied at the sides with pincered clear glass ornament, evenly spaced and surmounted by flattened finials suggesting wings and downward-pointing leaves, all raised on a plain stem section with a small flattened basal knop above a plain conical foot, 26cm high
Footnotes
A still life painting by Jacob van Hulsdonck of Stilleben, in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig, features a remarkably similar glass. This was painted circa 1635-45 and so provides a likely date for the manufacture of this tour de force of glassmaking. Van Hulsdonck's still life is illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), p.334, fig.71. A number of related glasses are in the collection at Veste Coburg.
