Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 23
A very rare façon de Venise quadruple-winged wine glass, 17th century
1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £5,355 inc. premium
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A very rare façon de Venise quadruple-winged wine glass, 17th century
Of attractive small size, the thin round funnel bowl resting on a small collar, above a multi-knopped hollow wrythen-moulded baluster stem with a flattened basal knop, applied with two pairs of opposing 'wings' in bright aquamarine with elaborate trailed and pincered ornament in clear glass, the conical foot with a narrow folded rim, 13cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
Sotheby's sale, 21 July 1980, lot 225
Private British Collection
It is very rare to find four wings such as this on a winged wine glass. A very similar small quadruple-winged wine glass with a matching cover is in the Louvre (inv. no.OA 1077). Another related small wine glass with a very similar stem but a different bowl is illustrated and discussed by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.295-6 and 306, no.285.
