19TH CENTURY

Details

A 'BARCELONA' FAÇON DE VENISE ENAMELLED VASE AND AN ASSOCIATED COVER
19th Century
Enamelled in shades of green, blue, ochre, white and brown, the cylindrical bowl with opposing pairs of birds perched on vertical flowering foliage beneath a band enclosing flowerheads within circles, supported on a hollow knop and spreading foot enamelled with wave and line ornament, the associated cover similarly decorated, (the vase with a hole and related crack to the base of the bowl and with filled-in hole to the side)
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high overall (2)

Provenance

As lot 1.
Rothschild inv. nos. P.48 and E.de R.257A.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

For an enamelled covered vase of similar form ascribed to Barcelona and the 16th Century formerly in the Cluny Museum, Paris, see J. G. Ricart, Los Vidrios Catalanes, Monumenta Cataloniae, Barcelona, 1941, Vol. III, pl. 42, and for further examples of these distinctively enamelled wares of the 16th Century from Catalonia see pls. 35-61. See also R. Barovier-Mantasti et al., exhibition catalogue, Mille anni di arte del vetro a Venezia, Venice, 1982, p. 111, no. 130; Alice Wilson Frothingham, Spanish Glass, London, 1963, pls. 8 and 9B; and A. Gasparetto, Il vetro di Murano, Venice, 1958, pl. 52.

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