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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE LATTICINIO GLASS EWER
Lot 141 PROPERTY OF THE WUNSCH FOUNDATION

A FAÇON-DE-VENISE LATTICINIO GLASS EWER

PROBABLY LATE 16TH CENTURY, VENICE

Closed6 December 2012

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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE LATTICINIO GLASS EWER
PROBABLY LATE 16TH CENTURY, VENICE
In vetro a retorti with spiral bands of gauze cable alternating with ribbons, the oviform body mould-blown with two pairs of opposing dragons divided by crowned columns above scrolls, the shoulder gadrooned, below a folded pinched trefoil rim, applied with a scroll handle with mask terminal, enclosing spiral threads, supported by a knop above a folded spreading foot
10 7/8 in. (27.5 cm.) high

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), Paris.
Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris.
Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild (1914-99), Tel Aviv, her sale, Christie's, London, 14 December 2000, lot 35.

Specialist note

For another example in the Curtius Museum, Liège see 'The Golden Age of Venetian Glass', Exhibition Catalogue, 1999, no. 56, for an example mounted in silver-gilt in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, see R.J. Charleston, 'Venetian Glass of the Seventeenth Century', Apollo, November 1979, Vol. CX, p. 407, no. 213, pl. 14. For a ewer and flask decorated in the same technique see Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass, London, 1979, p. 100-101, nos. 156-7 and an oviform vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, see R. Liefkes (ed.), Glass, London, 1997, p. 46, pl. 50.