FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY, NETHERLANDS

Details

A rare façon de Venise serpent-stemmed wine-glass
First half 17th Century, Netherlands
(Vetro a serpenti or Vleugelglas), the broad campana-shaped bowl supported on a flat merese, the coiled stem applied with pincered ornaments, above a short plain section and on conical foot
16.8cm. high

Special notice

Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.

Lot Essay

The Serenissima Republic was the first to create this type of glass in the 16th Century. Soon specialists from Venice were lured to glass centres in the North of Europe, where façon de Venise glass was produced and consequently became very popular. This Netherlandish glass had sometimes extravagant stems and bowls.

cf. F. en K. Laméris, Venetiaans en façon de Venise glas, 1500-1700, Lochem, 1991, for similar examples.

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