A glass beaker "à la façon de Venise"
A glass beaker "à la façon de Venise"
Cylindrical cup decorated with a mesh pattern in enamels and gilding. Some of the enamel cabochons in the lower section lost. H 10.2, D 7.4 cm.
Venice or Northern Bohemia, 16th / early 17th C.
Provenance
From a Belgian collection.
Literature
A similarly decorated beaker of almost identical dimensions described as a "humpen" and attributed to "Northern Bohemia, early 17th century" in the collection of Rudolf von Strasser (in: von Strasser/Spiegl, Dekoriertes Glas, Munich 1989, no. 49).
For this decor cf. the Venetian enamelled glasses in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin (in: Dreier, Venezianische Gläser, Berlin 1989, no. 14 ff.)
Cf. the beaker with melted ribs in the Veste Coburg collection (Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg, Lingen 1994, no. 141, inv. no. HA 131).
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A glass beaker "à la façon de Venise"
Cylindrical cup decorated with a mesh pattern in enamels and gilding. Some of the enamel cabochons in the lower section lost. H 10.2, D 7.4 cm.
Venice or Northern Bohemia, 16th / early 17th C.
Provenance
From a Belgian collection.
Literature
A similarly decorated beaker of almost identical dimensions described as a "humpen" and attributed to "Northern Bohemia, early 17th century" in the collection of Rudolf von Strasser (in: von Strasser/Spiegl, Dekoriertes Glas, Munich 1989, no. 49).
For this decor cf. the Venetian enamelled glasses in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin (in: Dreier, Venezianische Gläser, Berlin 1989, no. 14 ff.)
Cf. the beaker with melted ribs in the Veste Coburg collection (Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg, Lingen 1994, no. 141, inv. no. HA 131).