Lot 15. A rare façon de Venise winged wine glass, late 17th century. Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 (€3,400 - 4,500). Photo: Bonhams.
The conical bowl with white combed-thread or pulled-thread decoration of marvered loops, the hollow baluster stem below two mereses applied with two yellow trailed 'wings' with clear glass pincered ornament, on a wide folded foot, 16.5cm high (one tiny piece of pincering missing)
Provenance: From the estate of a Swiss collector, purchased from Francis Walther, July 1995.
Note: A similar glass is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Glass Catalogue p.71, fig.153b. For other related glasses see the Cinzano Glass Collection, Catalogue no. 3, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), p.84, cat. no.133 and Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Vol.1 (1993), p.50, no.59.
Bonhams. BRITISH AND EUROPEAN CERAMICS AND GLASS, 10:30 GMT - LONDON, KNIGHTSBRIDGE