A Spanish façon de Venise bowl, Castile or Catalonia, 17th century

Of distinctive straw tint, the tapering circular form with an everted folded rim, lightly moulded with vertical flutes, 12.8cm diam, 5.6cm high

Provenance
Paul Gresswell-Wilkins Collection

This bowl belongs to a distinctive group of vessels all of similar tint attributed to late 16th or 17th century Castile or Catalonia. All have faint moulded ribs and a distinctive pointed kick-in base but no applied footring. See Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), p.165, no.144 for a discussion. A bowl of very similar form in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne, is illustrated by Brigitte Klesse in the catalogue Glas (1963), p.103, no.202.