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Lot 25

A façon de Venise rosewater sprinkler (kuttfrolf), 17th century

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,912.50 inc. premium

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A façon de Venise rosewater sprinkler (kuttfrolf), 17th century

Perhaps for the Islamic market, the globular form with faint spiral fluting and a trailed vermicular footring, the wrythen-moulded neck with three pinched tubes extending into a tall slender swelling section, the flared undulating rim edged with a translucent turquoise-blue thread, kick-in base, 26.6cm 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 kuttrolf of similar form in the Museo del Vetro di Murano (accession no. Cl.VI n.00498) is illustrated by Barovier Mentasti et al., Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia (1982), p.156, no.236. Compare also to the pair of kuttrolfs sold by Christie's on 28 March 2000, lot 185.

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