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A rare façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine flute, 17th century

1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine flute, 17th century

The slender conical bowl set on a wide collar, the stem formed of a meandering rope of clear glass containing spiralling threads in white and iron-red, the sides applied with pincered ornament in turquoise glass, above a short plain section and small basal knop, the conical foot folded at the rim, 18.3cm high

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Provenance
Private British Collection

A flute of very similar form in the Rijksmuseum (inv. no.BK-NM-10754-17) is illustrated by Pieter Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum (1993), p.56, no.69. A similar but taller flute appears in a still life painting of circa 1675 by Jacob van Walscapelle (1644-1727).

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