An Italian Collecting Journey: 16th–20th Century Paintings and Decorative Arts

A Venetian glass enamelled footed bowl, early 16th Century

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Auction Closed

September 25, 05:46 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

of deep circular footed form with a flared folded rim, gilt with a broad scale-pattern band and enamelled in white, blue, red and green with seeded ornament

26 cm, 10 ¼ in. diameter

16,7 cm, 6 ⅝ in. high

Property of the Wunsch Foundation, Christie's, London, 6 December 2012, lot 140.

Examples with very closely related ornament to that on the bowl in the present lot are in the Louvre, Paris (inv. nos. R9 and R 15, the latter, from the Collection of baron Salomon de Rothschild). Another similar example is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, object no. 1975.1.1186.

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