A façon de Venise winged wine goblet, probably 17th century

The generous waisted bell-shaped bowl with a broad everted rim, applied with two tightly looped trailed 'wings' in translucent turquoise glass, the wings joining a pair of horizontal turquoise milled bands applied around the centre of the bowl, resting on a collar above a particularly bulbous hollow inverted baluster stem, over a delicate conical foot, 24.2cm high

Provenance
Sotheby's sale, 12 November 1984, lot 384
Private British Collection

A goblet with a bowl and wings of very similar form, but without milled bands, is illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), p.291, no.277. A wine glass of different form but with similar milled turquoise bands around the bowl, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. no.1975.1.1148) is illustrated and discussed by Dwight Lanmon and David Whitehouse, Glass in the Robert Lehman Collection (1993), pp.192-3, no.70. See also the glass from the John Malcolm Collection sold by Christie's on 8 February 1977, lot 215.