19TH CENTURY

Details

A 'VENETIAN' ENAMELLED AMETHYST STANDING BOWL
19th Century
The everted bowl with folded rim and decorated with a wide band of incised gilt scale ornament enriched with green and white enamel dots, the spreading conical foot with pendant waved lines above a stylized foliate band in green and white enamels, with upturned folded rim
9½ in. (24 cm.) diam.

Provenance

As lot 1.
Rothschild inv. nos. P.48 and E.de R.281.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

For a somewhat similar example ascribed to the first quarter of the 16th Century, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from the Wilfred Buckley Collection (C164-1936), see D. P. Lanmon & D. Whitehouse, Glass in the Robert Lehman Collection, New York, 1993, p. 39, fig. 10.2., and W. Buckley, The Art of Glass, London, 1939, pl. 20, no. 123.

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