Lot 82
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An enamelled dated cobalt-blue tankard (Henkelkrug)
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An enamelled dated cobalt-blue tankard (Henkelkrug)

1602, BOHEMIA OR PERHAPS SAXONY

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An enamelled dated cobalt-blue tankard (Henkelkrug)
1602, BOHEMIA OR PERHAPS SAXONY
The cylindrical neck applied with two trails and an angular handle with a thumb-rest, the globular body set on a conical foot, the neck enamelled in bright yellow with the word ANNO above a row of yellow dashes applied to a ring-trail and the body similarly enamelled 1602 above a frieze of a running stag, a hound, a hare and another hound divided by a tree (enamels to frieze of running animals severely degraded, overall burial discolouration and iridescence)
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Cf. Brigitte Klesse and Hans Mayr, Veredelte Gläser aus Renaissance und Barock, Sammlung Ernesto Wolf (Vienna, 1987), no. 46, for an example with a similar frieze, dated 1605; Axel von Saldern, German Enameled Glass (Corning, 1965), p. 164, fig. 297, illustrates a tankard of similar form dated 1592 in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Yvonne Brunhammer and Jean-Luc Olivié, Bohemian Glass (Paris, 1989), p. 27 illustrate a jug decorated with an animal frieze in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague.

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