The wide funnel-shaped bowl is mould blown with twelve vertical ribs. The bowl is encircled seven times by a continuous applied trail. The hollow stem with a ribbed knop above a spirally-moulded flattened and inverted baluster, supported on a shallow conical foot with a folded rim.
Susanne Higgott discusses a glass with similar bowl in the Wallace Collection (Higgott 2011, no. 41) where she says that this type of bowl has been attributed to Venice and the Low Countries.
Condition:
Perfect
Provenance:
Bagnasco Collection, Christie’s London, 28 March 2000, lot 83
Barbara Wirth Collection
Price: £9,500