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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS COMET BEAKER
Lot 138 PROPERTY OF THE WUNSCH FOUNDATION

A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS COMET BEAKER

LATE 16TH CENTURY/17TH CENTURY, SOUTH NETHERLANDS

Closed6 December 2012

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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS COMET BEAKER
LATE 16TH CENTURY/17TH CENTURY, SOUTH NETHERLANDS
Of greyish tint, the tall cylindrical beaker with a kick-in base, the lower part applied with three turquoise glass trailing threads issuing from 'comets' below an engrailed band, supported on a footrim with pincered ornament
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) high

The Guépin Collection; Christie's, Amsterdam, 5 July 1989, lot 21.
Joseph R. Ritman, sale Sotheby's, London, 14 November 1995, lot 9.

Specialist note

Only six other intact examples of this form appear to be recorded, see Pieter C. Ritsema van Eck and Henrica M. Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Zwollen, 1993, Vol. I, pp. 91-3, nos. 122-125 where the authors list the examples in Museum collections, the other example was sold Christie's, Amsterdam, 7 June 1995, lot 77.
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