Lot Essay
Cf. Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), p. 88, no.140.
Details
A faon de Venise colour-twist serpent-stemmed goblet
the broad funnel bowl supported on a merese, the coiled stem with a central figure-of-eight enclosing brick-red and opaque white threads and applied with pincered ornament above a plain section, on a folded conical foot, 17th century (replacement tip to pincered ornament) -- 18.7cm. highSee colour plate 6
the broad funnel bowl supported on a merese, the coiled stem with a central figure-of-eight enclosing brick-red and opaque white threads and applied with pincered ornament above a plain section, on a folded conical foot, 17th century (replacement tip to pincered ornament) -- 18.7cm. highSee colour plate 6