A FACON DE VENISE SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS COMET BEAKER, (kometenbeker) of slightly greyish tint, the lower part applied with three spiralling turquoise waved bands with claw terminals, beneath an applied engrailed band, the kick-in base with a pincered band to the edge of the foot

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A FACON DE VENISE SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS COMET BEAKER, (kometenbeker) of slightly greyish tint, the lower part applied with three spiralling turquoise waved bands with claw terminals, beneath an applied engrailed band, the kick-in base with a pincered band to the edge of the foot
second half 16th Century
8.5 cm high

Lot Essay

cf. H.E. Henkes, Kometenbekers, 1989, Antiek 23: 329 - 334 for a discussion of these, inspired by the comet of Haley

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