A Venetian gilt and polychrome-enamelled armorial cesendello...

A Venetian gilt and polychrome-enamelled armorial cesendello-form vase, after the Tiepolo cesendello Murano, circa 1875-1881, probably by Salviati & Co. or the Venice & Murano Glass and Mosaic Company, principally in clear blown glass, decorated in gold leaf and polychrome enamels, 27cm high The design derives directly from the celebrated Tiepolo cesendello in the Museo del Vetro, Murano, dated 1500-1515. A particularly close nineteenth-century comparison is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object no. 81.8.222, an enamelled and gilt Murano cesendello measuring 26 cm high and donated in 1881 References: https://www.visitmuve.it/en/masterpiece/ cesendello-lamp-tiepolo/ https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/ search/186170 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/ search/186188

Estimate:£150

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