LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY

細節

A Venetian 'krautstrunk' beaker
Late 15th/early 16th Century
The body of barrel shape moulded with spiral bands of nodular ornament enriched with gilding above an enamelled band in iron-red and white and beneath a trailed thread enamelled in blue and white, the everted rim with traces of a gilt band enamelled with iron-red and white rosettes between white enamel dots, with milled footrim and kick-in base (crack to lower part and through footrim and crack to base, gilding rubbed)
5½ in. (14 cm.) high

出版

Baumgartner 1995, pp. 14 and 77, no. 156.

展覽

Musée Ariana, Geneva, May-September 1995, no. 157.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

Whilst the present 'krautstrunk' beaker is of a form found towards the end of the Middle Ages north of the Alps and more usually of a green colour (see Baumgartner/Krueger 1988, p. 297, nos. 339-342 and pp. 337 -351, nos. 403-428), the present example is atypical being of clear glass with enamel decoration and is almost certainly of Venetian origin. The decoration including a band of enamelled circles and an enamelled applied trailed thread are decorative ornaments closely associated with Venetian glass, see Tait 1979, col. pl. 3, no. 3; Mariacher 1963, p. 61 and Sotheby's sale catalogue, 12 February 1979, lot 205.