A façon de Venise winged wine glass, 17th century

The conical bowl set on a hollow tapering stem with a basal merese, applied with opposing aquamarine trailed wings with pincered ornament in clear glass, on a wide conical folded foot, 18cm high

Provenance
Private British Collection

Two very similar glasses are in the Museo del Vetro di Murano (inv. nos. Cl.VI n.01163 and n.00511), one of which is illustrated by Barovier Mentasti et al., Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia (1982), p.118, no.148. Another is illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), p.263, no.244. Two more are in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (inv. nos. A62.1.A and A62.1.B) illustrated by Erwin Baumgartner, Venise et Façon de Venise (2003), p.99, no.44. See also that from the Lady Cartwright Collection sold by Bonhams on 29 September 2020, lot 24.