5 - Large polylobed bowl with “vetro a fili” decoration

Large polylobed bowl with “vetro a fili” decoration Venice, 16th century H. 7.9 cm; diam. 26.5 cm Provenance: Private collection Bibliography: Sylvie Lhermite-King, Renaissance Glass. Origins and Influences, Exhibition catalog, Paris, 2013, p. 61 Comparative bibliography: Jules Labarte, Description of the Works of Art in the Debruge-Duménil Collection, Paris, 1847. Giovanni Mariacher, Blown Glass from Ancient Rome to Venice, Milan, 1959. Dwight P. Lanmon and David B. Whitehouse, The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Glass, New York, 1993. Christie’s, London, An Important Collection of Venetian and Façon de Venise Glass (Bagnasco Collection), March 28, 2000. Marta Ajmar-Wollheim and Flora Dennis, *At Home in Renaissance Italy*, London, 2006. This clear glass cup, decorated with white vetro a fili, features a wavy body formed of twelve lobes. Condition: Perfect Several bowls of a similar shape, also with twelve lobes, are known to exist in museum collections, notably at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg (see Lanmon and Whitehouse, p. 86, fig. 25.9), at the Museo Civico in Turin (ibid., fig. 25.10; Mariacher, pl. 47), and at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (see Ajmar-Wollheim and Dennis, p. 264, no. 78). We may also mention a cup of the same type that was part of the Debruge-Duménil collection as early as the first half of the 19th century (see Labarte, p. 702, no. 1306), as well as an example from the Bagnasco collection, which was offered for sale at Christie’s in London on March 28, 2000 (lot 216).