Lot Essay
Cf. A. Dorigato, Murano Glass Museum (Milano 1986), p.44 and ill.
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17TH CENTURY
Details
A Venice shell-shaped flagon
17th century
The body in the shape of a flattened ribbed valval shell, with narrow flaring neck applied with two pincered S-shaped handles, upon a twisted knop within two mereses, the folded foot domed
20cm high
See illustration
17th century
The body in the shape of a flattened ribbed valval shell, with narrow flaring neck applied with two pincered S-shaped handles, upon a twisted knop within two mereses, the folded foot domed
20cm high
See illustration
Provenance
Collection Osterrieth, Antwerp.
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