A GERMAN DATED ARMORIAL SQUARE FLASK of greenish/yellow tint and enamelled in colours, one side with a coat-of-arms and the date 1664 and the three remaining sides with bouquets of flowers in blue, yellow, white and iron-red with green scrolling foliage, the shoulder with two rows of enamelled dots and the short neck with everted rim (section of rim with chips), 1664, Saxony or perhaps Bohemia | Christie's

Lot 170

170

A GERMAN DATED ARMORIAL SQUARE FLASK of greenish/yellow tint and enamelled in colours, one side with a coat-of-arms and the date 1664 and the three remaining sides with bouquets of flowers in blue, yellow, white and iron-red with green scrolling foliage, the shoulder with two rows of enamelled dots and the short neck with everted rim (section of rim with chips), 1664, Saxony or perhaps Bohemia

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A GERMAN DATED ARMORIAL SQUARE FLASK of greenish/yellow tint and enamelled in colours, one side with a coat-of-arms and the date 1664 and the three remaining sides with bouquets of flowers in blue, yellow, white and iron-red with green scrolling foliage, the shoulder with two rows of enamelled dots and the short neck with everted rim (section of rim with chips), 1664, Saxony or perhaps Bohemia
17cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Rudolf von Strasser/Walter Spiegl, Dekoriertes Glas, p. 191, no. 34 for an example dated 1681; see also Gisela Haase, Sächsisches Glas, p. 305, no. 47

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