19TH CENTURY

Details

A 'VENETIAN' ENAMELLED TWO-COLOUR GOBLET
19th Century
The flared deep-turquoise bowl with slightly everted upper part and the lower part applied with a clear pincered collar enriched with gilding, enamelled in shades of green, blue, brown, black and enriched in gilding with a continuous scene on a wide freize including Venus bathing, The Three Graces and Cupid amongst shrubs in a hilly landscape, between bands of gilt scale pattern enriched with enamel dots, the dark-blue vertically ribbed triple-knop stem and spreading conical foot enriched with granular gilding and with folded rim, (gilding to lower part of bowl extensively rubbed)
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high

Provenance

As lot 1.
Rothschild inv. nos. P.48 and E.de R.258.

Literature

G. Mariacher, Vetri Italiani del Rinascimento, Milan, 1963, p. 43.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

Two other similar goblets are known: one in the collection of the Musée National de la Renaissance, Écouen, France, and the second (ex. Collection Maurice de Rothschild, Geneva) is now in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. For the second goblet see R. Barovier-Mentasti et al., exhibition catalogue, Mille anni di arte del vetro a Venezia, Venice, 1982, p. 74, nos. 64a-b and G. Mariacher, op. cit., p. 42 C.

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