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

With a round funnel bowl resting on a collar, supported by an extraordinary stem formed from a slender rope of glass containing spiral threads of white and iron-red, looped symmetrically into curlicues, applied at the sides with pincered clear glass ornament, evenly spaced and surmounted by flattened finials suggesting wings and downward-pointing leaves, all raised on a plain stem section with a small flattened basal knop, above a plain conical foot folded at the rim, 28.4cm high

Provenance
John Malcolm of Poltalloch (1805-1893)
Colonel George Malcolm of Poltalloch, Christie's sale, 8 February 1977, lot 204
Private British Collection