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A German puzzle- or siphon-goblet
1675-1700
Details
A German puzzle- or siphon-goblet
1675-1700
The central removable ornament consisting of a hollow running horse-type animal with an open mouth, applied with two ears and four curved legs to a pincered ring around an elongated narrow tube, set into a generous flaring rounded funnel bowl applied with a milled thread, upon a pincered thread and a globular hollow stem flanked by three pincered supporters, with folded spreading foot
28cm high See illustration
Provenance
Collection Osterrieth, Antwerp.
Special notice
Christie's charges a Buyer's premium calculated at 23.205% of the hammer price for each lot with a value up to €110,000. If the hammer price of a lot exceeds €110,000 then the premium for the lot is calculated at 23.205% of the first €110,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of €110,000. Buyer's Premium is calculated on this basis for each lot individually.
Lot Essay
Cf. P. Lazarus, The Cinzano Collection (London 1974), for a similar siphon-goblet with illustration.
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