Lot 170
170
A VENETIAN BUCKET OR ASPERSORY, the compressed baluster sides with two bands of moulded double-ribs, the lower applied with four lion's masks, the everted folded rim applied with two lugs and with rope-twist loop handle, second half of the 16th century

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A VENETIAN BUCKET OR ASPERSORY, the compressed baluster sides with two bands of moulded double-ribs, the lower applied with four lion's masks, the everted folded rim applied with two lugs and with rope-twist loop handle, second half of the 16th century
18.5cm. diam.
Provenance
Anon., sale Christie's, 25 November 1986, lot 206

Lot Essay

For a comparable example embellished with diamond-point engraving see Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass, p. 133, no. 227

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