FINE GLASS AND BRITISH CERAMICS Wednesday 17 May 2017 at 10.30am Knightsbridge, London FINE GLASS S AND BRITISH CERAMICS | Knightsbridge, London | 17 May 2017 | Knightsbridge, London 17 May 2017 24158 FINE GLASS AND BRITISH CERAMICS Wednesday 17 May 2017 at 10.30am Knightsbridge, London VIEWING BIDS ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES Sunday 14 May 11am-3pm +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Glass Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm Monday 15 May 9am-4.30pm +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax John Sandon +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Tuesday 16 May 9am-4.30pm To bid via the internet please +44 (0) 20 7468 8244 visit bonhams.com [email protected] Please see page 2 for bidder SALE NUMBER information including after-sale 24158 Please note that telephone British Ceramics collection and shipment bidding is only available on Fergus Gambon CATALOGUE lots with the low estimate in +44 (0) 20 7468 8245 IMPORTANT INFORMATION £25.00 excess of £500. 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Intending bidders of the sale date. must satisfy themselves as to the condition of any lot as specified For further VAT information in clause 14 of the Notice please contact: to Bidders at the end of the [email protected] catalogue. 1 2 A FAÇON DE VENISE FILIGRANA FLASK, 17TH CENTURY Of unusual spherical form with a small flared neck and kick-in base, internally-decorated in vetro a retorti, with spiralling tubes of different filigrana patterns, one of which contains a single thin blue thread, 9.3cm high £600 - 1,000 €700 - 1,200 US$740 - 1,200 3 * A LARGE FAÇON DE VENISE DIAMOND-POINT ENGRAVED TAZZA, PROBABLY DUTCH, EARLY 17TH CENTURY Circular with a flat top upturned slightly at the rim, decorated with a trailed pale turquoise-blue glass chain between thin clear glass trails, the outer border engraved in diamond-point with a series of roses and carnations on long leafy stems, a meandering frieze at the rim, the spreading foot with a thin trailed collar and folded edge, 32.5cm-33cm diam £1,500 - 2,000 €1,800 - 2,300 US$1,900 - 2,500 2 Provenance 1 From the estate of a Swiss collector A VENETIAN SMALL FOOTED BOWL, FIRST HALF 16TH Tazzas of this type, copied from Venetian prototypes, were popular CENTURY productions in the Netherlands and these have also been attributed In pale amethyst tinted glass, moulded around the centre with a series to Catalonia. An engraved example in the Bavarian National of vertical ribs and applied with two trailed blue threads beneath a Museum, Munich, is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Die Sammlung des folded-over rim, the spreading foot also with a folded rim edged with a Bayerischen Nationalmuseums München, Vol.I (1982), pl.24, figs.97. further blue filigree thread, 21cm-21.4cm diam Another with similar flowers to the present lot is in the Museo Vetrario in Murano, see Barovier Mentasti et al, Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a £1,400 - 1,800 Venezia (1982), p.163, fig.250. An example in the Museos de Arte, €1,600 - 2,100 Barcelona also with diamond-point engraving is illustrated by Klein US$1,700 - 2,200 and Lloyd, History of Glass (1984), p.112 and also by Alice Wilson Frothingham, Spanish Glass (1963), pl.11. Provenance The Bagnasco Collection, sold by Christie’s, 28 March 2000, lot 25 The Chris Crabtree Collection, sold by Bonhams, 19 May 2010, lot 103 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 4 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 3 4 4 * A RARE FAÇON DE VENISE WINGED WINE GLASS, LATE 17TH CENTURY 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) £1,600 - 2,000 €1,900 - 2,300 US$2,000 - 2,500 Provenance From the estate of a Swiss collector, purchased from Francis Walther, July 1995 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. 5 A FAÇON DE VENISE DOUBLE CRUET, PROBABLY SPANISH OR PORTUGUESE, 18TH CENTURY The separate flasks for oil and vinegar in the shape of gourds with fine moulded ribbing, raised on a single base with a hollow ribbed stem and spreading foot, the rims and a central band trailed in amber glass, 19cm high £800 - 1,200 €940 - 1,400 US$990 - 1,500 A cruet of related shape at Veste Coburg, attributed to La Granja de San Ildefonso, is illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, p.470, no.560.