Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 19
A Venetian opalescent glass dish or stand, circa 1700
29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£500 - £700
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A Venetian opalescent glass dish or stand, circa 1700
Of twelve-sided circular form with a flat folded rim, moulded with twelve radiating ribs around the kick-in centre, 21.2cm diam
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
A plate in opal glass is in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin (accession no. D 2731), illustrated by Franz Dreier, Venezianische Gläser (1989), p.88, no.77. Footed tazzas with tops of related form are in the Rosenborg Castle glass collection, illustrated by Gudmund Boesen, Venetianske Glas på Rosenborg (1960), nos.66 and 70. Another is in the British Museum (accession no. S.773) illustrated by Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), pp.108-9, no.175. See also two in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin (accession nos. K 141 and K 142), illustrated by Dreier (1989), p.88, nos.75 and 76. The flat rim on the present lot appears to be a most unusual feature.
