A Venetian Chalcedony footed bowl 17th century or...
A Venetian Chalcedony footed bowl 17th century or later, the wide funnel bowl marbled with striations of brown, lilac and pale green, the sides applied with clear glass handles, raised on a short knopped stem and clear conical foot, a small rim section broken out and restuck, 12.5cm dia. Provenance: Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942), Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009) at Exbury House, Hampshire. Cf. Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass, p.123, no.208 for a bowl with the same handles, which relate to a drawing sent to Venice by a London glass-seller in the late 1660s.
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A Venetian Chalcedony footed bowl 17th century or later, the wide funnel bowl marbled with striations of brown, lilac and pale green, the sides applied with clear glass handles, raised on a short knopped stem and clear conical foot, a small rim section broken out and restuck, 12.5cm dia. Provenance: Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942), Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009) at Exbury House, Hampshire. Cf. Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass, p.123, no.208 for a bowl with the same handles, which relate to a drawing sent to Venice by a London glass-seller in the late 1660s.
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