A VENETIAN ENAMELLED AND GILT BLUE GOBLET Circa 1500 The ogival-shaped flared bowl terminating in a pincered denticulated collar enriched with gilding, the wide frieze gilt and enamelled with white, dark brown and green dots, the human faces, arms and legs enamelled in natural colours, decorated with a triton wielding a club, an equestrian figure of a knight, a rearing riderless horse behind, a large figure of a female warrior holding a spear and shield and a second knight running towards a king seated on a throne with two female attendants to his right, on a rectangular dais before a cliff face and causeway leading to a turetted gateway, between an upper band of gilt scale ornament and a lower gilt dentil band, both enriched with enamel dots, the ribbed multi-knopped stem enriched with gilding, the high conical ribbed foot similarly enriched and with upturned folded rim (internal crack to base of bowl, restoration to one point of collar, the stem repaired, the foot with related internal cracks to fault line in glass) 8 in. (22.5 cm.) high
A VENETIAN ENAMELLED AND GILT BLUE GOBLET Circa 1500 The ogival-shaped flared bowl terminating in a pincered denticulated collar enriched with gilding, the wide frieze gilt and enamelled with white, dark brown and green dots, the human faces, arms and legs enamelled in natural colours, decorated with a triton wielding a club, an equestrian figure of a knight, a rearing riderless horse behind, a large figure of a female warrior holding a spear and shield and a second knight running towards a king seated on a throne with two female attendants to his right, on a rectangular dais before a cliff face and causeway leading to a turetted gateway, between an upper band of gilt scale ornament and a lower gilt dentil band, both enriched with enamel dots, the ribbed multi-knopped stem enriched with gilding, the high conical ribbed foot similarly enriched and with upturned folded rim (internal crack to base of bowl, restoration to one point of collar, the stem repaired, the foot with related internal cracks to fault line in glass) 8 in. (22.5 cm.) high
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