FIRST QUARTER 16TH CENTURY

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A Venice gilt dipinto freddo tazza
First quarter 16th century
The shallow bowl decorated in cold-painted colours to the reverse with three portrait medallions of young maiden (belle donne) flanked by a band of a foglie trailing decoration, between a band of hatches and a band of oblique motifs, on folded pedestal base (some wear to the painting)
23.5cm diam.

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Lot Essay

Cf. D.P.E. Lanmon & D. Whitehouse, Glass in the Robert Lehmann Collection, (New York-Princeton 1993), p.88 ill.26.1 (gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953)

P.C. Ritsema van Eck & H.M. Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Volume I (Zwolle 1993), p.17 ill.1 for a Venitian tazza with similar a foglie decoration.

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