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A Venetian or façon de Venise small latticinio glass cruet, late 17th/early 18th century

Estimate

800 - 1,200 EUR

Lot Details

Description

decorated in vetro a retorti with opaque white lattimo canes formed of gauze alternating with filigree entwined with single canes, of baluster form with a flared trumpet neck and slender curved spout, trailed with a vermicular collar in clear glass, the double-scroll handle with elaborately pincered ornament in clear glass, on a clear glass ring foot


11 cm, 4 ⅜ in. high

An example of a cruet of closely related form and decoration is illustrated by A-E. Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Lingen, 1994, p. 402, cat. no. 436; another is in the Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris, inventory no. ODUT1298 (2).