A Venetian latticinio glass plate, late 17th/early 18th century

With Kunstzalen A. Vecht, Amsterdam, sold 26 April 2006;

The Overduin Collection, sold Bonhams, London, 21 May 2014, lot 1.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, exquisite objects in Venetian blown glass were treated as important jewel-like treasures from the first moments of their creation. A symbol of status in society, these fragile works entered the most important Renaissance and Baroque wunderkammers in Europe, among them, most notably, the unique glass cabinet of Frederik IV (1671-1730), King of Denmark, created in 1713-14 at Rosenborg Castle, which survives today and includes some 1,000 pieces of Venetian and European glass, including around fifty-nine chargers and plates with similar decoration to the present lot.

A slightly smaller plate with similar spiralling lattimo threads in two layers to create a net-like pattern, is illustrated by A-E. Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Lingen, 1994, p. 150, cat. no. 121. Another is in the British Museum, London, museum no. 1880,0513.2, illustrated by H. Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass, London, 1979, p. 80, cat. 118. For an example in the Historisches Museum, Basel (inv. GM AB 1912.200) see E. Baumgartner, Reflets de Venise: Gläser des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts in Schweizer Sammlungen, 2015, pp. 144-145, cat. no. 53, where the author lists other known examples of plates and chargers, and discusses this complex technique and the broad date range of its use. A charger of this type was sold at Bonhams, London, 19 November 2025, lot 4.