• Home
  • AUCTIONS
  • ART MARKET
  • TOP LOTS
  • OVERVIEW
  • EVENTS
  • Cambi Auction House
  • Italian
  • Home
  • AUCTIONS
  • ART MARKET
  • TOP LOTS
  • OVERVIEW
  • EVENTS
  • Cambi Auction House
  • Italian
Antique Glassworks

Reffined transparency. Collectable old glassworks

6 October 2015 No Comments
Reffined transparency. Collectable old glassworks
admin 6 October 2015
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Email
Auction 242 / Collectible Antique Glasses, 20.10.2015

 

Glass collectors rarely have such a greedy opportunity as the auction that will be held in the second half of October: it has been long, in fact, since the Italian and international markets, always stingy with important Venetian glasses and even more in recent years, have offered such rare, selected and prestigious items.
Among the approximately two hundred pieces, a large number consists of Venetian and à la façon de Venise blown glass, ranging from the early 16th century to the first half of the 17th century, with an appendix of Central European glasses of the 18th century.

In broad overview that includes 16th-century balusters, reticelli, glass pens, stained lattimo, blown engraved glasses with a diamond tip, cups and buckets threaded with aquamarine glass, it is worth mentioning some examples of absolute excellence such as the cup and the tazza dating back to the early 16th century, decorated in polychrome enamels and gold patterned points; the tazza is particularly elegant, because of the vortex veining on the plate.
The group of Medicean glasses with gilt bronze mountings, made in Florence or Pisa in the late 16th and early 17th century, is spectacular and very rare, both in private collections and in the public ones. It is formed by a blue glass vase with polylobed embouchure, a red one and a pair of small colorless glass jugs; mountings are decorated with heads of putti, cherubs and fruit garlands.

The four items were exhibited in Paris in 2013 in the exhibition “Fragile”. It is also worth mentioning the pair of “pilgrim” flasks with the Bernardinian trigram painted in the middle, these too dating back to the late 16th century. Moreover, many other glasses are worthy of attention. I will just mention the rich and beautiful set of large bowls on foot, ribbed at the bottom and decorated with strings of aquamarine glass; unique is the one with a thread in amber glass at the base.

symbol-3

Let’s mention then the small and precious tazzas, one in reticello glass and another blown into a mold with rhomboid motifs with node highlighted in gold; the numerous chalices, among which the one with the lozenges knot, another shaped like reeds in lattimo glass and the beautiful chalice with polylobed bowl decorated with loops in aquamarine glass; small cups engraved with a diamond tip, as the large tazza with a central conveyor chain in blue glass. Nor we can neglect the rare small bowl in lattimo glass stained in red and blue with pliers handles (among the few known I report the one, identical, of the Poldi Pezzoli Museum) and, between the pens and festoons glasses, the Spanish ones and the delicious jug threaded in blue glass.
We should stop here, also to let visitors free of discovering the many other real surprises that the auction reserves, not only among the masterpieces, but also between the less refined and of common use glasses, or between the more specific one, as the devotional glasses – reliquaries and “bottles of the manna” – and the pharmacy glasses.

Margherita Gobbi

glassworks
  • Share This:
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Email
Previous Fontana Arte. An Italian Story
Next The Recipe for a Record
admin
Related Posts
The Value of Transparency 16 March 2016

Search Blog

Categories

  • ART MARKET
  • AUCTIONS
    • 17th and 18th Century Majolica
    • 19th and 20th Century Paintings
    • Antique Glassworks
    • Antique Silvers
    • Decorative Arts from the XXth Century
    • Design
    • Fine Art Selection
    • Fine Design
    • Furnishings Auctions
    • Jewelry
    • Majolica
    • Modern and Contemporary Art
    • Old Master Paintings
    • Oriental Art
    • Sculpture and Artworks
    • Sculpture from the XIXth and XXth Century
    • Wax Artworks
    • Wrist and Pocket Watches
  • CAMBI PRESENTS
  • Collectibles
  • EVENTS
  • OVERVIEW
  • TOP LOTS
  • Uncategorized

Popular Tags

albini collection Albini Foundation art asset arti decorative arti del 900 art maket 2019 art market art on instagram best italian auction house cambi auction Cambi Auction House cambi calendar cambi sold 2018 casa di fantasia classic cars design design200 design auction Design Week Exhibition featured Fuori Salone 2018 Gabriella Crespi glassworks Interiors italian design jewelry Marx Ernst max ernst Milan Osvaldo Borsani paintings phillips photography rare collectible posters rome Salone del Mobile sculpture silvers Surrealism venice vintage posters

Menu

  • HOME
  • ASTE
  • TOP LOTS
  • Cambi Casa d’Aste
  • Cookie

Tag

albini collection Albini Foundation art asset arti decorative arti del 900 art maket 2019 art market art on instagram best italian auction house cambi auction Cambi Auction House cambi calendar cambi sold 2018 casa di fantasia classic cars design design200 design auction Design Week Exhibition featured Fuori Salone 2018 Gabriella Crespi glassworks Interiors italian design jewelry Marx Ernst max ernst Milan Osvaldo Borsani paintings phillips photography rare collectible posters rome Salone del Mobile sculpture silvers Surrealism venice vintage posters

Recent Posts

  • Osvaldo Borsani: A Life Dedicated to Architecture and Design
  • Max Ernst for La Fucina degli Angeli glassworks
  • Design Loves Milan – A Charity Auction to support Hospital Luigi Sacco in Milan
  • Casa di Fantasia: a milestone in Ponti’s ouvre
© Copyright Cambi Casa d'Aste 2015. Tutti i diritti riservati.