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A French façon-de-Venise amethyst spirit-flask
17th Century
Perhaps Nivernais, barrel-shaped, with marbled iron-red, pale-blue and white inclusions, applied with bands of opaque-blue trailed ornament, the short amethyst spout with an applied white rim and flanked by white pincered loop handles
5 3/8 in. (13.5cm.) long
17th Century
Perhaps Nivernais, barrel-shaped, with marbled iron-red, pale-blue and white inclusions, applied with bands of opaque-blue trailed ornament, the short amethyst spout with an applied white rim and flanked by white pincered loop handles
5 3/8 in. (13.5cm.) long