Exceptional and rare basin with bohemian crystal... Lot 13

Exceptional and rare basin with bohemian crystal pourer depicting deer in a wood, finely ground, first half of the 19th century height 16.3 cm; diameter 34.3 cm (the basin); height 29.5 cm; width 22 cm (the pourer) PROVENANCE Collection of Ludovico or Luigi I (1786-1868), King of Bavaria (from 1825 to his death); he donated to his mistress, the marquise Marianna Baccinetti Florenzi of Perugia; subsequently it came to the Bonaparte family, and through Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta, it came as a gift to the Countess Amalia Canonica in 1906; and by hereditary succession to the current owners [as reported in a typewritten passage concerning the love affair between the German sovereign and the Italian noblewoman, taken from The court and Roman society of the 18th and 19th centuries by David Silvagni (Rome 1883-1885) and other documents preserved in the family archives]. EXHIBITIONS Exhibition of artistic glass in Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome 1933.