Of straw tint, the circular bowl with an everted rim, moulded around the centre with twenty slightly spiralling ribs beneath a thin trailed band in opaque white and a thicker band in translucent blue, the folded rim enclosing a further translucent blue trail, set on a hollow shaped pedestal foot with a central swelling knop and moulded with twenty vertical ribs, above an opaque white trailed thread, the folded footrim enclosing a further trail in opaque white, 24.1cm diam, 18.3cm 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

The straw tint of the present lot is reminiscent of much 16th century Spanish glass. Together with the distinctive foot formation and opaque white trailed decoration, this suggests a Spanish origin, probably Barcelona. It has close similarities to the bowl illustrated and discussed by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.103-4, no.40, also attributed to Catalonia. Another similar bowl is in the Museo de las Artes Decorativas in Barcelona, illustrated and discussed by Dwight P Lanmon, Glass in the Robert Lehman Collection (1993), p.116, fig.39.5, alongside several coloured glass ewers with feet of similar form.

The majority of known vessels with this distinctive foot shape are in blue glass with opaque white decoration. A small blue glass bowl attributed to Cadalso is in the Museu Episcopal de Vic in Barcelona (accession no. MEV 225), and another is in the Museo del Vetro di Murano (accession no. Cl.VI n.483) illustrated by Barovier Mentasti et al., Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia (1982), p.102, no.111. Compare also to the blue glass bowl and ewer in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan (accession nos. 1250 and 1269).

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