The glass Dutch or German, with a rounded funnel bowl wheel-engraved with Commedia dell'arte figures, a female figure with a bird on her hand gestures to a Pulchinello who holds a pipe and a jug, a rabbit at his feet, a dancing man also holds a bird and tangles his foot in a rope, while his companion bows and holds a money bag and a smoking pipe, the stem with a hollow knop between small mereses, on a wide folded foot, 13.6cm high (light crizzling)

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A façon de Venise engraved wine glass, late 17th century

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A façon de Venise engraved wine glass, late 17th century

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