A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED RUBY GLASS CUP AND COVER
A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED RUBY GLASS CUP AND COVER

MID-18TH CENTURY

Details
A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED RUBY GLASS CUP AND COVER
MID-18TH CENTURY
The tapering cylindrical glass bowl cut with vertical and horizontal decoration, with upper and lower mounts connected with twisted straps, on a knopped stem and domed circular foot chased with scrolls, the conforming domed cover with baluster finial, apparently unmarked
7 ½ in. (19 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. 113, pp. 346-347.

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