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

With a round funnel bowl resting on a merese, the looped and twisted stem formed of single length of clear glass rope set with two opaque white spiral threads, applied at the sides with pincered ornament and flattened serpent heads as finials in bright turquoise glass, the stem knopped at the base and on a wide foot folded at the rim, 28.5cm high

Provenance
Private British Collection

A very similar glass is in the Willet-Holthuysen Museum, illustrated by Hubert Vreeken, Glas in Het Amsterdams Historisch Museum (1998), p.143, no.119. Another was sold by Sotheby's in Zurich on 5 December 1991, lot 7.