A FAÇON DE VENISE ENAMELLED GOBLET
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A FAÇON DE VENISE ENAMELLED GOBLET

THE GLASS PERHAPS 19TH CENTURY, THE DECORATION 19TH CENTURY

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A FAÇON DE VENISE ENAMELLED GOBLET
The glass perhaps 19th Century, the decoration 19th Century
The slender trumpet bowl enamelled in white and blue with two portrait medallions heightened in black reserved on vertical panels of stylized scrolling foliage and hatched ornament, supported on a flattened knop between two mereses enriched with white enamel decoration above a spreading conical foot similarly enamelled and with folded rim, (minute rim chip)
65/8 in. (17 cm.) high
Provenance
As lot 1.
Rothschild inv. nos. P.48 and E.de R.255.
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Lot Essay

Two other enamelled goblets of this form ascribed to the late 16th Century, but without the portrait medallions, are illustrated in the literature, see D. P. Lanmon & D. Whitehouse, Glass in the Robert Lehman Collection, New York, 1993, p. 74, fig. 23.2 for the example from the Jerome Strauss Collection now in the Corning Museum, New York, and B. Klesse & A. von Saldern, 500 Jahre Glaskunst, Sammlung Biemann, Zurich, 1978, p. 306, no. 258.

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