Details
A façon de Venise trick-goblet (Tischbrunnen)
CIRCA 1600, VENICE OR HALL IN TIROL
The generous funnel bowl applied with an internal ribbed trunk, the rim gilt, the stem flanked by three prunted scroll handles and applied with turquoise 'jewels' enclosing a flattened hollow knop with three elongated spouts between two mereses, above a gilt baluster section moulded with garlanded lion masks, on flattened knop, the conical foot folded (one extremity to elongated spout lacking and extremity to trunk chipped, some losses to two turquoise 'jewels')
24.7 cm. high
Literature
Wiewelhove, 2002, ill. Tafel VI.
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