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Lot 16

A façon de Venise engraved wine glass, 17th century

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £4,437.50 inc. premium

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A façon de Venise engraved wine glass, 17th century

The cup-shaped bowl decorated in diamond-point with three different formal flowers flanked by stylised leaf sprays, on a knopped stem incorporating a series of four collars above a hollow baluster and short plain section between collars, the conical foot further decorated in diamond-point with three stylised flowers, 14.6cm 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 winged wine glass with comparable decoration was sold by Bonhams on 12 December 2012, lot 3.

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