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Lot 22

A façon de Venise tazza, 17th century

1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £4,845 inc. premium

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A façon de Venise tazza, 17th century

Of straw tint, the wide shallow bowl with an undulating rim and moulded with fourteen ribs, set on a tall multi-knopped wrythen-moulded hollow stem formed of three globular knops over an inverted baluster, over a conical foot, 11.7cm high

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Private British Collection

The straw tint of the present lot is reminiscent of much Spanish glass from the 16th and 17th centuries. A wine glass of similar tint on a wrythen-moulded stem from the Overduin Collection was sold by Bonhams on 21 May 2014, lot 5.

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