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Lot 5

A façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine glass, 17th century

20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,147.50 inc. premium

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A façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine glass, 17th century

With a round funnel or cup-shaped bowl resting on a merese, a single length of glass rope set with white spiral threads is looped and twisted to form the stem and this is applied at the sides with pincered ornament and flattened serpent heads as finials, the stem knopped at the base and on a wide foot folded at the rim, 25.5cm high

Footnotes

A very similar glass was sold by Christie's on 4 June 1991, lot 143. Another similar glass but with a translucent blue rope forming the stem is in the Willet-Holthuysen Museum, illustrated by Hubert Vreeken, Glas in Het Amsterdams Historisch Museum (1998), p.143, fig.120 and pl.X.

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