Live Auction 5068Christie's Interiors - Masters & Makers, Oak Furniture, Works of Art, Arts & Crafts and Old Master Paintings
A FACON-DE-VENISE 'TRICK-GLASS'
Lot 91

A FACON-DE-VENISE 'TRICK-GLASS'

MID-17TH CENTURY, VENICE OR LOW COUNTRIES

Closed8 March 2011

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GBP 1,375

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A FACON-DE-VENISE 'TRICK-GLASS'
MID-17TH CENTURY, VENICE OR LOW COUNTRIES
The thistle-shaped bowl applied with a blue oviform ribbed bulb, supported by a hollow wrythen-moulded knopped stem, on a folded conical foot
7 5/8 in. (19.3 cm.) high

Specialist note

See Pieter C. Ritsema van Eck and Henrica M. Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass
in the Rijksmuseum, Vol. I, Amsterdam, 1993, p. 98, pl. 136 for a similar bowl.