Lot 184
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A VENETIAN ENAMELLED LARGE DEEP BOWL, the centre painted in yellow-ochre, green and blue with a doe standing in a river before grasswork and beneath a stylised sunburst within a white and iron-red line shaped quatrefoil cartouche, the sides with a wide band of overlapping laurel leaves enriched with granular gilding and iron-red, blue and green enamel dots between borders of blue, white and iron-red dot ornament, with everted folded rim, circa 1500

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A VENETIAN ENAMELLED LARGE DEEP BOWL, the centre painted in yellow-ochre, green and blue with a doe standing in a river before grasswork and beneath a stylised sunburst within a white and iron-red line shaped quatrefoil cartouche, the sides with a wide band of overlapping laurel leaves enriched with granular gilding and iron-red, blue and green enamel dots between borders of blue, white and iron-red dot ornament, with everted folded rim, circa 1500
32.5cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Both the style of painting and palette of the present example are to be found on a tazza in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, see 'Europäische und Aussereuropäische Glas', Catalogue, p. 66, no. 122 and another in the British Museum, see Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass, p. 29, no. 5, and for a ewer probably by the same hand see 'Mille Anne di Arte del Vetro a Venezia', Exhibition Catalogue, 1982, p. 102, no. 111

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