VENICE, early 16th century. PELGRINO GOURDE, "fiasca... Lot 30

VENICE, early 16th century. PELGRINO GOURDE, "fiasca da pellegrino", in blown crystallo glass, enamelled and gilded. The decoration consists of engraved gold leaf and pastilles in application, tinted in red, green, blue and white. The belly has a composition of concentric circles decorated with a pastille register. The applied and pinched rings are surmounted by stylised palmettes. The shoulder is highlighted with radiating motifs and several geometrically patterned registers. Height 31 cm. A small crack under one lower ring, two small cracks under the other lower ring, probable restorations to the two lower rings, wear to the decoration, deposits and visible dirt, the stopper and its holding cloth are missing. A rare example of this production from Murano around 1500, two similar examples of which are kept in the Louvre Museum in Paris, but also in the Cathedral of Apt or the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.