A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS 'CRACKED-ICE' GOBLET
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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS 'CRACKED-ICE' GOBLET

LATE 16TH CENTURY, VENICE OR LOW COUNTRIES

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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS 'CRACKED-ICE' GOBLET
LATE 16TH CENTURY, VENICE OR LOW COUNTRIES
The oviform bowl clear to the upper part above a 'cracked-ice' pattern section, the lower part of the bowl with trellis or 'nipt-diamond-waies' pattern, supported by a merese above a hollow baluster stem blow-moulded with lions masks suspending beaded swags below flowerheads between gadronned sections, on a folded conical foot
7¼ in. (18.3 cm.) high
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

For a tall latticinio goblet with a similar lion-mask stem see Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass, London, 1979, pp. 66-67, no. 82.

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