CIRCA 1600

Details

A FAÇON-DE-VENISE WINE-FLUTE
CIRCA 1600
Of pale grey tint, with tapering conical bowl above a hollow stem moulded with alternating lions' masks and flowerheads above swags between two bands of gadroons, flanked by mereses, on a folded conical foot
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Joseph R. Ritman; sale Sotheby's, London, 14 November 1995, lot 16.

Literature

Laméris & Laméris 1991, p. 100, no. 85.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, 1991, no. 85.

Special notice

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 goblet with identically moulded knop, attributed to Hall or Innsbruck, see Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianische Glas der Veste Coburg, Lingen, 1994, pp. 244-245, no. 222. A latticinio flute with a similarly moulded knop was sold in these Rooms, on 28 March 2000, lot 180.

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