PROBABLY LATE 16TH CENTURY, VENICE

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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE LATTICINIO GLASS EWER
PROBABLY LATE 16TH CENTURY, VENICE
In vetro a retorti with spiral bands of gauze cable alternating with ribbons, the oviform body mould-blown with two pairs of opposing dragons divided by crowned columns above scrolls, the shoulder gadrooned, below a folded pinched trefoil rim, applied with a scroll handle with mask terminal, enclosing spiral threads, supported by a knop above a folded spreading foot
10 7/8 in. (27.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), Paris.
Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris.
Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild (1914-99), Tel Aviv, her sale, Christie's, London, 14 December 2000, lot 35.

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Lot Essay

For another example in the Curtius Museum, Liège see 'The Golden Age of Venetian Glass', Exhibition Catalogue, 1999, no. 56, for an example mounted in silver-gilt in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, see R.J. Charleston, 'Venetian Glass of the Seventeenth Century', Apollo, November 1979, Vol. CX, p. 407, no. 213, pl. 14. For a ewer and flask decorated in the same technique see Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass, London, 1979, p. 100-101, nos. 156-7 and an oviform vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, see R. Liefkes (ed.), Glass, London, 1997, p. 46, pl. 50.

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