Sale 6407
London
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14 December 2000
Price realised
GBP 3,172
Estimate
TWO FAÇON DE VENISE TWO-COLOUR WINGED GOBLETS Venice or The Netherlands, 17th Century The dark-amethyst funnel bowls supported on wrythen-moulded multi-knopped clear glass stems applied with opposing scroll and pincered ornament and loops suspending loose rings, on conical feet with folded rims, (one lacking loop and loose ring, two tips to pincered ornament lacking, the other broken through stem and with one loop and ring lacking) 6¼ in. (16 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
As lot 1. Rothschild inv. nos. P.48 and E.de R.309 and 311.
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For the type see H. Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass, London, 1979, p. 112, no. 184.
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