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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS 'CRACKED-ICE' GOBLET
Lot 142 PROPERTY OF THE WUNSCH FOUNDATION

A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS 'CRACKED-ICE' GOBLET

LATE 16TH CENTURY, VENICE OR LOW COUNTRIES

Closed6 December 2012

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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS 'CRACKED-ICE' GOBLET
LATE 16TH CENTURY, VENICE OR LOW COUNTRIES
The ogee-sided bowl with a waisted clear rim above a 'cracked-ice' pattern section, the shoulded moulded with two hotizontal ribs, supported by a ribbed inverted baluster hollow stem and domed foot
7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 June 1995, lot 37.

Specialist note

See Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass, London, 1979, pp. 98-99, no. 151 for a related form.