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Three Anglo-Venetian wine glasses circa 1680
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description
- 14cm. to 15cm., 5½in. to 5 7/8 in.
each conical bowl set on a hollow quatrefoil knop flanked by mereses above a wide conical foot with folded rim
Catalogue Note
Glasses of this type are illustrated in the sketches of John Greene, dated 1667-1672, who was trading with Allesio Morelli, a Venetian glassmaker. A similar glass is illustrated by L.Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses, p.57, pl.27
A very similar example was sold in our New Bond Street Rooms, 14th April 1992, lot 43.