A façon de Venise winged wine glass, 17th century

The cup-shaped bowl set on a shoulder-knopped hollow baluster stem between two mereses, flanked by opposing 'wings' trailed in bright turquoise-blue with pincered ornament in clear glass, on a conical foot, 14.5cm high

Provenance
Private British Collection

A very similar glass from the Overduin Collection was sold by Bonhams on 21 May 2014, lot 6. Other glasses with applied wings of similar form are illustrated by Pieter van Eck and Henrica Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, vol.1 (1993), pp.48-50, nos.54-8, by Hubert Vreeken, Glas in Het Amsterdams Historisch Museum (1998), pp.116-9, nos.66-71 and by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.295-9, nos.284-8 and 291-3.