A façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine glass, 17th century

The generous round funnel bowl set on a collar, above a stem formed of a single winding rope of clear glass enclosing spiralling opaque white threads, the sides applied with pincered ornament in bright turquoise including flattened finials suggesting wings and downward-pointing leaves, all raised on a plain stem section with a small flattened basal knop, the conical foot folded at the rim, 27cm high

Provenance
Private British Collection

A very similar glass in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne, illustrated by Brigitte Klesse in the catalogue, Glas (1963), p.109, no.219. Another was sold by Sotheby's in Zurich on 5 December 1991, lot 5.