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

1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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

The slender round funnel bowl resting on a merese, the meandering stem formed of a rope of glass containing a brightly coloured assortment of spiralling threads in white, iron-red and translucent blue, the sides with pincered ornament in turquoise glass, on a short plain lower section with a small basal knop, the conical foot neatly folded at the rim, 18.8cm high

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Provenance
British Private Collection

A much larger glass with a stem containing threads in similar colours is illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), p.341, fig.337.

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