Live Auction 1147European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries
A FAÇON-DE-VENISE WINE-FLUTE
Lot 343 Property from the Estate of Eric Martin Wunsch (lots 333-357)

A FAÇON-DE-VENISE WINE-FLUTE

CIRCA 1600

Closed2 October 2013

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GBP 6,875

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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE WINE-FLUTE
CIRCA 1600
Of pale grey tint, with tapering conical bowl above a hollow stem moulded with alternating lions' masks and flowerheads above swags between two bands of gadroons, flanked by mereses, on a folded conical foot
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

Joseph R. Ritman; sale Sotheby's, London, 14 November 1995, lot 16.

Specialist note

For a goblet with identically moulded knop, attributed to Hall or Innsbruck, see Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianische Glas der Veste Coburg, Lingen, 1994, pp. 244-245, no. 222. A latticinio flute with a similarly moulded knop was sold in these Rooms, on 28 March 2000, lot 180.