Live Auction 8360Christie's Interiors
A FAÇON-DE-VENISE BLOW-MOULDED FLASK
Lot 217

A FAÇON-DE-VENISE BLOW-MOULDED FLASK

17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY LOW COUNTRIES

Closed5 March 2013

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GBP 2,000

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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE BLOW-MOULDED FLASK
17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY LOW COUNTRIES
In the form of a pectin shell, supported by a wrythen-moulded hollow knop between mereses, above a folded conical foot, the flared neck and shoulders applied with scroll handles with pincered ornament and a waived band
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a similar smaller example with blue handles see Pieter C. Ritsema van Eck and Henrica M. Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Zwolle, 1993, Vol. I, p. 106, no. 147.