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A large Venetian footed bowl, 16th century

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,550 inc. premium

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A large Venetian footed bowl, 16th century

Of flared circular form with a spiral gadrooned base and fluted pedestal foot, the folded rim enclosing a translucent blue trail, faint traces of a wide gilt band beneath and a further thin trail in deep blue glass, a thicker blue band folded around the edge of the footrim, 26cm diam, 18cm 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

Another similar bowl from this collection was sold by Sotheby's on 14 July 1975, lot 324. Compare to the example illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.102-3, no.39. See also Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), p.58, fig.63 and Karel Hetteš, Old Venetian Glass (1960), pl.11.

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