LATE 16TH, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Details

A façon de Venise drinking horn
late 16th, early 17th century
The smooth curved tube widening towards the opening, the narrow end terminated by a gilt merese and a double knop, the body applied with three pincered threads, further applied with two arched handles, the opening with a ring border (traces of gilding)
43cm wide
See illustration

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Lot Essay

The use of horn-shaped vessels is probably of Germanic origin. They continued to be used on special occasions until the 17th century.
Cf. P.C. Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Volume I, pp.206-207 and illustration.

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