A façon de Venise 'vetro a reticello' large goblet

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THE ELISABETH OSTHOFF GLASS COLLECTION, BIELEFELD Elisabeth Osthoff, was born in 1918 in the lively industrial Westphalian town of Bielefeld, being in the centre of art collectors such as Rudolf August Oetker. She was trained as a sculptor at the Academy of Arts in Berlin and was a member of the 'Künstlergemeinschaft Klosterstrasse' together with prominent artists such as Käthe Kollwitz, Werner Heldt and Hermann Blumenthal. Together with her husband she started collecting and trading fine arts especially of the Moyen Age and after his death in 1958, Elisabeth continued the business. She not only had excellent connections with various German and European museums but also with the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York. Privately she managed to collect glass with an almost encyclopaedical sense of overview and a deep feeling for quality. The fragility of glass fascinated her, because she felt it was closely related to her own very sensitive personality. She may well be considered rare as a lady collector in a gentleman's world of glass collecting. Sadly Elisabeth Osthoff passed away in January 2007 in Bielefeld. BIBLIOGRAPHY Seyler, 1895 G.A. Seyler, J. Siebmachers grosses und allgemeines Wappenbuch, Band 5.5...Zweitausend bürgerliche Wappen, Nürnberg, 1895 Jansen, 1962 B. Jansen, Catalogus Noord-en Zuid Nederlands Glas, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, 1962 Jokelson, 1968 P. Jokelson, Sulphides, New York, 1968 Catalogue Kunstgewerbemuseum Köln, 1973 B. Klesse & G. Reineking-von Bock, Glas, Köln, 1973 Journal of Glass studies, Corning, 1973 Journal of Glass Studies, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, 1973. Pazaurek, 1976 G.E. Pazaurek & E. von Philippovich, Gläser der Empire und Biedermeierzeit, Braunschweig, 1976 Baumgärtner, 1981 S. Baumgärtner, Porträtgläser, München, 1981 Spiegl, 1981 W. Spiegl, Biedermeiergläser, München, 1981 Rückert, 1982 R. Rückert, Die Glassammlung des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums München, München, 1982 Holm, 1984 E. Holm, Glasperlen, München, 1984 Dolgikh, 1985 E.V. Dolgikh, Russian glass in the Collection of the State museum of Ceramics etc., (written in Cyrillic script), Moscow, 1985 Haase, 1988 G.Haase, Sächsisches Glas, Leipzig, 1988 Laméris, 1991 F & K. Laméris, Venetiaans & Façon de Venise Glas, Lochem, 1991 Busson, 1991 A. Busson, Biedermeier-Steingläser, Wien, 1991 Ritsema van Eck, 1995 P.C. Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Zwolle, 1995 Osthoff, 1995 E. Osthoff, 'Eine Schwarze Flasche aus Potsdam', Journal of glass studies, Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1995 Von Strasser, 2002 R. von Strasser, Licht und Farbe, Wien, 2002 Jahn, 2002 W. Jahn, Trinkgläser für Freimaurer, Hamburg, 2002 Wiewelhove, 2002 H. Wiewelhove, Tischbrunnen, Berlin, 2002 Von Lichtenberg, 2004 P. von Lichtenberg, Glasgravuren des Biedermeier, Regensburg, 2004 Kovacek, 2006 M. Kovacek, Glas aus 5 Jahrhunderten, Wien, 2006

A façon de Venise 'vetro a reticello' large goblet

16TH/17TH CENTURIES, PROBABLY VENICE

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A façon de Venise 'vetro a reticello' large goblet
16TH/17TH CENTURIES, PROBABLY VENICE
The generous bell-bowl with allover opaque-white interlocking diagonal threads forming a diamond lattice network with entrapped air bubbles, above a flattened hollow knop, domed and folded foot
17.2 cm. high

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