LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A 'VENETIAN' ENAMELLED BLUE STANDING BOWL
Late 19th Century
Of dark tint, the compressed globular bowl with everted folded rim enamelled in ochre, iron-red, green and shades of blue with beasts and birds amongst stylised scrolling flowering foliage on a wide band and beneath a border of gilt scale ornament enriched with enamel dots, the spreading conical foot with white, iron-red and green line and radiating lappet decoration and with an upturned folded rim
91/8 in. (23 cm.) diam.

Provenance

As lot 1.
Rothschild inv. nos. P.48 and E.de R.248.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

For the example in the Museo Civico, Brescia, attributed to the second quarter of the 16th Century, see exhibition catalogue, R. Barovier-Mentasti et al., Mille anni di arte del vetro a Venezia, Venice, 1982, p. 72, no. 61, and G. Mariacher, Vetri Italiani del Rinascimento, Milan, 1963, p. 60.

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