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Lot 23

A façon de Venise winged tazza, 17th century

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,187.50 inc. premium

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A façon de Venise winged tazza, 17th century

The wide shallow terraced bowl with an undulating rim and moulded with fifteen ribs, set on a slender hollow inverted baluster stem between collars, applied with two opposing pale yellow trailed wings with pincered ornament in clear glass, on a wide conical foot, 14.1cm 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 tazza from this collection with a bowl of very similar form was sold by Sotheby's on 14 July 1975, lot 293. Compare also to the example in the British Museum (accession no. S.471) illustrated by Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), p.52, no.52 and that from the Walter F Smith Collection sold by Sotheby's on 8 July 1968, lot 908 and illustrated by E Barrington Haynes, Glass Through the Ages (1959), pl.28c. Another in the Fitzwilliam Museum (accession no. C.118.1912) is illustrated in the catalogue (1978), p.70, no.147.

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