LATE 16TH CENTURY/17TH CENTURY, SOUTH NETHERLANDS

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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS COMET BEAKER
LATE 16TH CENTURY/17TH CENTURY, SOUTH NETHERLANDS
Of greyish tint, the tall cylindrical beaker with a kick-in base, the lower part applied with three turquoise glass trailing threads issuing from 'comets' below an engrailed band, supported on a footrim with pincered ornament
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) high

Provenance

The Guépin Collection; Christie's, Amsterdam, 5 July 1989, lot 21.
Joseph R. Ritman, sale Sotheby's, London, 14 November 1995, lot 9.

Literature

A. von Saldern & H. Hilschenz, 'Meisterwerke der Glaskunst aus internationalem Privatbesitz', Exhibition Catalogue, Düsseldorf, p. 40, no. 102.
F. Laméris & K. Laméris, Venetiaans en Façon de Venise glas 1500-1700, Lochem, 1991, p. 37, no. XV.

Exhibited

Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, 'Meisterwerke der Glaskunst', 22 November 1968 - 5 January 1969, no. 102.
Delft, Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, 'Een Glasie van Vrienschap', 21 December 1969 - 17 February, 1970, no. 17.
Amstersdam, De Nieuwe Kerke, 'Venetiaans & Façon de Venise Glas 1550-1700', 1991, no. XV.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

Only six other intact examples of this form appear to be recorded, see Pieter C. Ritsema van Eck and Henrica M. Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Zwollen, 1993, Vol. I, pp. 91-3, nos. 122-125 where the authors list the examples in Museum collections, the other example was sold Christie's, Amsterdam, 7 June 1995, lot 77.
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