19TH CENTURY

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A 'VENETIAN' ENAMELLED BALUSTER BLUE JUG
19th Century
Decorated in blue, iron-red, turquoise, white, green and ochre with two bands of stylised scrolling flowering foliage divided by gilt scale bands enriched with turquoise dots and edged with iron-red and ochre lines, the neck with a slightly swelling collar beneath a trailed band enriched with gilding, the scroll handle enriched with granular gilding and with pincered terminal, the short spreading stem enamelled with lappet and trefoil ornament and with upturned folded rim enriched in gilding
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high

Provenance

As lot 1.
Rothschild inv. nos. P.48 and E.de R.246.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

See D. P. Lanmon & D. Whitehouse, Glass in the Robert Lehman Collection, New York, 1993, p. 16, no. 3, and p. 19, fig. 3.1 for a blue enamel jug in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, both ascribed to the 16th Century and decorated with scrolling flowering foliage. For a blue covered goblet also enamelled with scrolling flowering foliage in the Museo Civico, Brescia see R. Barovier-Mentasti et. al., exhibition catalogue Mille anni di arte del vetro a Venezia, Venice, 1982, col. pl. p. 73, no. 62.

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