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Venetian footed wine glasses 16th-17th century
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Pre 1700 item# 312026 (stock# 447)
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DeHoogh Antiques
215-735-7722
$15,000
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Height 8.5 cm.
Three free-blown chalcedony glass footed wine glasses. The varigated colors which make the glass resemble chalcedony are only on the outer surfaces.
For references on this seldom seen glass see: Glass from Antiquity to Renaissance no.64 , Glass Through the Ages by Haynes no.18 MMOA Bulletin Nov. 1960 fig.2 The J Paul Getty Museum has an example of chalcedony glass which they call "a rare object of a small extant group.
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