A GERMAN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED AND RUBY GLASS EWER
A GERMAN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED AND RUBY GLASS EWER
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A GERMAN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED AND RUBY GLASS EWER

THE GLASS SOUTH GERMANY, LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS MAKER'S MARK GSF, UNIDENTIFIED, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A GERMAN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED AND RUBY GLASS EWER
THE GLASS SOUTH GERMANY, LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS MAKER'S MARK GSF, UNIDENTIFIED, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Pear shaped with scroll handle and angled spout, the hinged stepped domed cover with crimped rim, the finial formed as Hercules wrestling Anteus, all on spreading circular foot, marked on foot with maker's mark and standard mark, flange of cover with later Dutch control mark, and handle with later French tax mark
5 7⁄8 in. (14.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired from Galerie J. Kugel, Paris, 2002.
Literature
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 100, pp. 332-333.

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