FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY, THE NETHERLANDS

Details

A façon de Venise miniature prunted beaker
FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY, THE NETHERLANDS
Of greyish tint, the cylindrical body with three rows of twelve prunts, the base with two rows of prunts, with kick-in base, on three turquoise raspberry prunts
4 cm. high

Literature

Duysters, 2002, p. 55 no. 21.

Exhibited

H.M.A., invent. no. VS 116.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This knobbelbekertje may have been used as an utilitarian vessel e.g. a salt-cellar.
See Ritsema van Eck & Zijlstra-Zweens, 1993, p. 95, nr. 131 and Henkes, 1994, pp. 137-138, p. 141, no. 31.7.

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