LATE 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY SOUTH GERMAN OR LOW COUNTRIES

Details

A FAÇON-DE-VENISE LATTICINIO STANGENGLAS AND COVER
LATE 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY SOUTH GERMAN OR LOW COUNTRIES
Of tapering cylindrical form, the flattened domed cover with double clear and vetro a fili knop finial, decorated overall in vetro a fili with raised diagonal lattimo stripes, on a spreading foot and folded footrim, minor scratch to interior of upper rim
12¾ in. (32.5 cm.) high

Provenance

The Collections of the Margrave and Grand Dukes of Baden; sale Sotheby's, 5 October 1995, lot 837.
The Hida Takayam Museum of Art, Takayama, Japan; sale Sotheby's, London, 19 December 2002, lot 76.

Literature

Hida Takayama Museum of Art, Masterpieces of European Glass 1500 - 1900, 2000, p. 40, no. H.096.

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Lot Essay

The Stangenglas is a traditional Germanic form that originates from 15th century prototypes, usually of green-tinted Waldglas and continued to be popular until the late 17th century. For a related example also with a cover, in the collections of the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, see Dwight P. Lanmon and David B. Whitehouse, Glass in the Robert Lehman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993, p. 157, fig. 57.5.

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