Lot Essay
For an enamelled covered vase of similar form ascribed to Barcelona and the 16th Century formerly in the Cluny Museum, Paris, see J. G. Ricart, Los Vidrios Catalanes, Monumenta Cataloniae, Barcelona, 1941, Vol. III, pl. 42, and for further examples of these distinctively enamelled wares of the 16th Century from Catalonia see pls. 35-61. See also R. Barovier-Mantasti et al., exhibition catalogue, Mille anni di arte del vetro a Venezia, Venice, 1982, p. 111, no. 130; Alice Wilson Frothingham, Spanish Glass, London, 1963, pls. 8 and 9B; and A. Gasparetto, Il vetro di Murano, Venice, 1958, pl. 52.