The slightly flared bucket bowl decorated in diamond-point to each side with a formal spray of flowers, the sides with single tulips, resting on a collar above a hollow shoulder-knopped inverted baluster stem, applied with a pair of opposing 'wings' trailed in aquamarine edged with pincered ornament in clear glass, the folded conical foot further engraved with highly stylised leaves and flowerheads, 17.1cm high

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Provenance
Private British Collection

This stem formation is seen on a large number of façon de Venise glasses with similar diamond-point engraved decoration, see for example those sold by Bonhams on 12 December 2012, lot 3 and 3 November 2016, lot 16. However, only two other glasses of this particular form would appear to be recorded. One is in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (inv. no.A 62.12), illustrated by Erwin Baumgartner, Venise et façon de Venise (2003), p.88-9, no.39. The other is in the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut (inv. no.1917.325), illustrated by Dwight Lanmon, Glass from Six Centuries (1978), p.24, no.12. Unlike the present lot, neither has a folded footrim.

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