Cylindrical with a flanged base, cold-painted in black with a continuous Bacchanalian wooded landscape scene incorporating two figures in a horse-drawn chariot surrounded by winged putti, one holding a ewer, the rim with a formal rosette border, set on a collar above a double hollow rib-moulded knop applied with three partially gilt turquoise-blue raspberry prunts, over a short plain section flanked by collars, the wide conical folded foot painted with an acanthus scroll band, 23.8cm high

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Provenance
Lady 'Lili' Maria Elisabeth Augusta Cartwright (née von Sandizell)
Thence by descent to her son, William Cornwallis Cartwright, Aynhoe Park, Oxfordshire
Thence by family descent to the present owner

A number of reliquary goblets of identical form without painted decoration are in the Museo de Vetro di Murano (accession nos. Cl.VI n.01021 to n.01025 inclusive, and n.01036). Another is illustrated and discussed by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.320-2, no.312. See also the example in the Corning Museum of Glass (accession no. 2005.3.119). It is highly unusual to find decoration of this type on a piece such as this. The Italian style of the painting, which would appear to be contemporary to the glass, would appear to point to Venetian production when taken together with the number of similar examples in the Museo de Vetro di Murano.

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