A VENETIAN SMALL EWER, the conical body applied with lion's masks and turquoise prunts with traces of gilding above spiked gadroons, the narrow neck with a vermicular collar and the flared rim with two yellow lattimo bands, the curved spout applied with a further lion's mask with traces of gilding and with a yellow lattimo rim, the scroll handle with clear pincered ornament, on a spreading foot (crack to body, lower piece of pincered ornament lacking), late 16th/early 17th century