A Pair Of Venetian Gilt-Copper Salvers on Foot, Circa 1710
Auction Closed
January 30, 06:14 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
conventional form🦂, the feet screwing on, the tops engraved with the arms of Giovanni Cornaro, Doge of Venice from 1709-1722
diameter 14 in.; 35.5 cm
Giovanni Cornaro (1647-1722)
Earls of Roseberry, Mentm𒅌ore Towers, Buckinghamshire
Sotheby's, Mentmore, 20 May 1977, lot 1085
Giovanni Cornaro, Venetian nobleman and statesman, served as Doge of Venice from May 22, 1709 until his death in 1722. He led Venice in the last war against the Ottoman Empire, culminating in the significance of the Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718 whereby Venice lost the Morea and her last possessions 𒉰in the Aegean Sea.
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