Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 14
Two small Venetian engraved bowls, 17th and early 18th century
29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £765 inc. premium
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Two small Venetian engraved bowls, 17th and early 18th century
Of cup shape applied with two trailed scroll handles, one decorated in diamond-point with a stylised bird perched on foliate branches to one side, a tulip flanked by branches to the other, on a trailed footring, 12cm wide across the handles, the other moulded with twelve gadroons to the lower part, decorated to both sides with heavily stylised floral sprays, on a circular foot, 13.6cm wide across the handles (2)
Footnotes
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
Three bowls of similar form and with very similar diamond-point decoration are in the Museo del Vetro di Murano (accession nos. Cl.VI n.01001, n.01120 and n.01121). For a bowl and cover in the same museum similar to the gadrooned example, see that illustrated by Barovier Mentasti et al., Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia (1982), pp.202-3, no.355.
