FINE GLASS AND BRITISH CERAMICS Wednesday 15 November 2017 at 10.30am Knightsbridge, London FINE GLASS AND BRITISH CERAMICS | Knightsbridge, London | Wednesday 15 November 2017 15 November 2017 | Knightsbridge, London Wednesday 24244 Bonhams Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax International Auctioneers and Valuers – bonhams.com FINE GLASS AND BRITISH CERAMICS Wednesday 15 November 2017 at 10.30am Knightsbridge, London VIEWING BIDS ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES Sunday 12 November +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Glass Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm 11am-3pm +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax John Sandon +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Monday 13 November To bid via the internet please +44 (0) 20 7468 8244 9am-4.30pm visit bonhams.com [email protected] Please see page 2 for bidder Tuesday 14 November information including after-sale 9am-4.30pm Please note that telephone British Ceramics collection and shipment bidding is only available on Fergus Gambon SALE NUMBER lots with the low estimate in +44 (0) 20 7468 8245 IMPORTANT INFORMATION 24244 excess of £500. 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Temple Quay a request is received up to 24 BRISTOL BS1 6EB hours before the auction starts. For further VAT information This written indication is issued please contact: subject to clause 3 of the Notice [email protected] to Bidders. You are strongly advised to request condition reports if you intend to bid in this sale. 1 1 A VENETIAN MILLEFIORI BALL OR SPHERE, 16TH CENTURY OR EARLY 17TH CENTURY Set with a scrambled arrangement of composite canes in green, blue, brick-red, purple, white, turquoise and amber, some of the canes set into a fragment of gold foil and all enclosed within clear glass, the ball 4.3cm diam, pierced through the centre and mounted between silver- gilt ‘Tudor Roses’ linked by a silver-gilt strap possibly for suspension (some abrasion, internal flaws probably from manufacture) £2,000 - 4,000 €2,200 - 4,500 US$2,600 - 5,300 Balls of millefiori canes survive in many collections and these have been mounted in a number of different ways. Their function is uncertain. Several examples are in Veste Coburg and these are discussed at length by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.62-67. Another is in the British Museum ref. no. WT.1154. Two others with identical canes to the present lot were sold by Bonhams 20 May 2015, lot 8 and 3 November 2016, lot 22. 2 A GOOD FAÇON DE VENISE WINGED WINE GLASS, PROBABLY NETHERLANDS, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY The bell-shaped bowl moulded with fine spiral wreathing, set on two mereses, the hollow centre of the stem also ribbed and with four knops, trailed with C-scroll and zig-zag ‘wings’ in translucent turquoise-blue and clear glass, on a wide foot folded at the rim, 18.8cm high £2,000 - 3,000 €2,200 - 3,400 US$2,600 - 4,000 2 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 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 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 (distorted during manufacture) £1,500 - 2,000 €1,700 - 2,200 US$2,000 - 2,600 Provenance Prof. Meixner Collection, Zurich Tazzas of this type, copied from Venetian prototypes, were popular productions in the Netherlands and these have also been attributed to Catalonia. An engraved example is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Die Sammlung des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums München, Vol.I (1982), pl.24, figs.97. 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 Venezia (1982), p.163, fig.250. 4 3 A FAÇON DE VENISE ALBARELLO, A NETHERLANDS ‘PIJPESTEEL’ AND A GERMAN ALEMBIC, ALL 17TH CENTURY, AND A RIBBED BEAKER The small albarello of dumbbell form, 9cm high, the pijpesteel or toasting glass with trumpet bowl and very thin stem, 16.7cm high, the medical or alchemist’s alembic with a very slender protrusion, in pale green glass, 23cm overall length (small loss to tip), together with a waisted glass beaker moulded with vertical ribs, possibly Netherlandish, 14.5cm high (4) £500 - 700 €560 - 790 US$660 - 920 For similar albarelli see Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.367 4 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.