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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS LARGE BEAKER
Lot 131 PROPERTY OF THE WUNSCH FOUNDATION

A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS LARGE BEAKER

CIRCA 1580-1620, PROBABLY LOW COUNTRIES, PERHAPS ANTWERP

Closed6 December 2012

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GBP 22,500

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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS LARGE BEAKER
CIRCA 1580-1620, PROBABLY LOW COUNTRIES, PERHAPS ANTWERP
Of flared form, decorated in vetro a fili with a spiral pattern, with a kick-in base, supported by a clear milled footrim
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high

Specialist note

See Brigitte Klesse, Kunstgewerbemuseum der stadt Köln, Glas, Cologne, 1963, p. 106, no. 210 for a similar smaller beaker.