A 'FAÇON DE VENISE' LATTICINIO GOBLET, the compressed oval bowl with a band of vetro a retorti between white threads, the rim with a band of granular gilding, supported on a tapering oviform stem moulded with lion's masks alternating with escutcheons between bands of gadrooning, on a folded conical foot, South Netherlands, second half of the 16th century

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A 'FAÇON DE VENISE' LATTICINIO GOBLET, the compressed oval bowl with a band of vetro a retorti between white threads, the rim with a band of granular gilding, supported on a tapering oviform stem moulded with lion's masks alternating with escutcheons between bands of gadrooning, on a folded conical foot, South Netherlands, second half of the 16th century
13cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass, p. 69, nos. 90 and 91

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