Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 34
A façon de Venise wine glass, late 17th century
29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,912.50 inc. premium
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A façon de Venise wine glass, late 17th century
Netherlands or possibly English, the conical bowl with a solid base, set on a hollow quatrefoil knop resting on a collar or merese above a short plain section, over a wide conical folded foot, 13.9cm high
Footnotes
A similar glass from the Smith Collection and Harvey's Wine Museum is illustrated by L.M. Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.57, no.27. A diamond-point engraved example was exhibited by John P Smith in Mallett's Masterpieces from Holland Exhibition (1990), no.8, together with an image of Woman Drinking with Soldiers by Pieter de Hooch painted in 1658 showing a glass of similar shape. A larger example from the Peter Lole Collection was sold by Bonhams on 5 June 2019, lot 8.
