Jim Peake
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Lot 30
A rare Spanish (Catalan) façon de Venise ewer or 'biberon', late 16th century
1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,550 inc. premium
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A rare Spanish (Catalan) façon de Venise ewer or 'biberon', late 16th century
Of distinctive yellow-green tint, the ovoid body with a slender neck enclosed at the top applied with a vermicular collar and a finial, with a double loop handle and flattened pointed spout applied with a glass trail at the tip, the base with a trailed footring, 22.5cm high
Footnotes
This type of vessel is more commonly seen with opaque white latticinio decoration. A very similar plain example is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Die Glassammlung des Bayersischen Nationalmuseums München, vol.1 (1982), no.122. Another in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne is illustrated by Brigitte Klesse, Glas (1963), p.92, no.193. Others of the same distinctive form are illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.381-2, figs.411-4.
