Live Auction 4212Christie's Interiors - Masters & Makers
A FAÇON-DE-VENISE WINE-GLASS
Lot 247 PROPERTY OF THE WUNSCH FOUNDATION

A FAÇON-DE-VENISE WINE-GLASS

SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY, VENICE OR LOW COUNTRIES

Closed4 December 2012

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GBP 2,750

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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE WINE-GLASS
SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY, VENICE OR LOW COUNTRIES
Of straw tint, the bowl with a pinched quatrefoil flared rim supported by a merese above a hollow baluster stem and folded conical foot
5 5/8 in. (14.2 cm.) high

Specialist note

Cf. Pieter C. Ritsema van Eck and Henrica M. Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Zwolle 1993, Vol. I, p. 25, no. 11 for a similar wine glass and an illustration of a related glass from Maggi's Bichierografia of 1604.