THE COLLECTION OF A SWISS GENTLEMAN

A rare and important Willem Mooleyser-style Netherlands facon de Venise diamond-engraved hunting drinking horn

THE GLASS CIRCA 1600-1650, THE ENGRAVING CIRCA 1650-1700

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A rare and important Willem Mooleyser-style Netherlands facon de Venise diamond-engraved hunting drinking horn
The glass circa 1600-1650, the engraving circa 1650-1700
(Drinkhoorn) The cornucopia-shaped body modelled as a smooth curved tube, widening towards one end, with a gilt thread to the end, the narrow end terminating in a gilt merese and a knop, further with three double bands of pincered threads, two upholding a tiny loop for hanging, engraved with a hunting scene after Tempesta, depicting: a hunter on horseback holding a spear towards a boar, further with two helpers and three hounds upon a grassy vignette, the upper part with five various animals: a deer; a lion; a camel; a dog and a cat, the lower part with a huge broadwinged swan
33cm. wide

拍場告示

The knop has been restuck to the horn.

拍品專文

c.f. P.C. Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, vol. II, p. 70, ill. 37,etc., for Willem Mooleyser examples in a very similar style, for further examples of drinking horns see p. 24, ill. 3, p. 89 and p. 207, ill. 332 and ill. 333

Willem Mooleyser (1640-1700) was a diamond-point engraver in Rotterdam. Almost nothing is known about him. His work is characterised by large shaded areas and superb craftmanship

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