Probably Netherlands, the bell-shaped bowl moulded to the base with twelve gadroons beneath a single applied thread, set on a merese above a hollow ribbed knop, over an openwork section comprising a pair of incised twist tubes with pincered decoration, beneath a pair of 'wings' in clear glass, further embellished with a pair of turquoise-blue glass opposing scrolled winged sections, raised on a conical foot, 19.7cm high

Footnotes

Glasses with gadrooning of this type occur in a number of paintings dating between the early 17th century and the 1660s by artists of various schools. A glass with a similar openwork stem and comparable gadrooning to a conical bowl is in the Wallace Collection, accession no. C552. Another from the Ernesto Wolf Collection with an octagonal gadrooned bowl is illustrated by Klesse & Mayr, European Glass from 1500-1800 (1987), no.25. Compare also with the example sold by Bonhams on 16 December 2009, lot 140. A glass with a similar openwork stem supporting a plain bowl is in the Corning Museum of Glass, accession no. 63.3.21.

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