A façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine glass, 17th century
The tall round funnel bowl set on a merese, the elaborate twisted stem formed of a sinuous rope of glass containing twisted threads of glass in white and iron-red, looped symmetrically, applied at the sides with pincered bright turquoise ornament including flattened finials suggesting the heads of two serpents, the stem set between two short plains sections, over a conical foot delicately folded at the rim, 30.3cm high
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Private British Collection
A very similar glass engraved in diamond-point is illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.338-40, no.331 and another on p.341, no.336. See also that with a bowl of slightly different form in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne, illustrated by Brigitte Klesse in the catalogue, Glas (1963), p.109, no.221.
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The tall round funnel bowl set on a merese, the elaborate twisted stem formed of a sinuous rope of glass containing twisted threads of glass in white and iron-red, looped symmetrically, applied at the sides with pincered bright turquoise ornament including flattened finials suggesting the heads of two serpents, the stem set between two short plains sections, over a conical foot delicately folded at the rim, 30.3cm high
Provenance
Private British Collection
A very similar glass engraved in diamond-point is illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.338-40, no.331 and another on p.341, no.336. See also that with a bowl of slightly different form in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne, illustrated by Brigitte Klesse in the catalogue, Glas (1963), p.109, no.221.