A Dutch engraved façon de Venise mythological goblet
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A Dutch engraved façon de Venise mythological goblet

1660-1680

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A Dutch engraved façon de Venise mythological goblet
1660-1680
The generous funnel bowl wheel-engraved with a frightened male figure washed ashore an island and lying beside a foliate tree, a spouting sea dragon beside him, further with a sunburst above a faraway town and three vessels with flying pennants, upon a merese and a large hollow balustroid stem upon a short lower section, the folded domed foot engraved with a continuous branch
24.5 cm. high
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Lot Essay

Cf. F. & K. Laméris, Venetiaans & façon de Venise glas, Lochem, 1991 p. 133, ill. 1.42 for a comparable goblet.

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