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Lot 24

A façon de Venise winged wine glass, 17th century

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,167.50 inc. premium

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A façon de Venise winged wine glass, 17th century

The conical bowl set on a hollow tapering stem with a basal merese, applied with opposing aquamarine trailed wings with pincered ornament in clear glass, on a wide conical folded foot, 18.1cm 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

Two very similar glasses are in the Museo del Vetro di Murano (accession nos. Cl.VI n.01163 and n.00511), one of which is illustrated by Barovier Mentasti et al., Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia (1982), p.118, no.148. Another is illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), p.263, no.244 and an example with engraved decoration on p.264, no.245. See also the two glasses in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (accession nos. A62.1.A and A62.1.B) illustrated by Erwin Baumgartner, Venise et Façon de Venise (2003), p.99, no.44.

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