19TH CENTURY

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A 'VENETIAN' ENAMELLED BLUE STANDING BOWL
19th Century
Of dark tint, the bowl with everted folded rim and enamelled in predominant shades of green, white, blue and mauve with pairs of winged sphinxes to either side of a cherub's head emerging from a vase alternating with pairs of putti seated on gilt urns, on a grassy sward and reserved on a ground of gilt scrolling foliage, with a gilt band above reserved with the inscription TENPORE FELICI MVLTI NOMINANTUR, on a high conical foot with folded rim, (blown bubble to rim, some rubbing to gilding)
8¼ in. (21 cm.) diam.

Provenance

As lot 1.
Rothschild inv. nos. P.48 and E.de R.261(?).

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

The sphinx motif appears on a green beaker attributed to Venice, circa 1500, formerly in the Kuntsgewerbe Museum, Berlin (see R. Schmidt, Das Glas, Berlin, 1912, p. 93, pl. 56 and F. A. Dreier, 'Ein venezianischer Emailglas-Pokal, Aus der Sammlung Lady Bagot', Kunst & Antiquitäten, Zeitschrift für Kunstfreunde Sammler und Museen, Heft III, 1986, p. 56, pl. 5); whilst the putti on the present example bear a close resemblance to those on a blue standing bowl in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio (ex. collections Charles Stein, Paris, and Maurice de Rothschild, Geneva) recently removed from view as being probably of 19th Century date (see R. Barovier-Mentasti et al., exhibition catalogue Mille anni di arte del vetro a Venezia, Venice, 1982, p. 81, nos. 71 a-c, and R. von Strasser & W. Spiegl, Dekoriertes Glas, Munich, 1989, p. 28, pl. 27).

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