Lot 204
  • 204

A rare gothic pewter flask, so-called "Ridevlesse", Netherlandish or middle-Rhenish 15th century

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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Description

  • height 32.7cm
disc-shaped and lightly convex, engraved with concentric bands, and an armorial shield in the centre indistinctly charged, applied further down with a shield-shaped plaque, a shield-shaped foot and a pair of elbow handles, the conical spout with flared mouth, also engraved with two bands, the flat reverse detached in two places, partly covered with cream-coloured incrustation, the spout pierced by corrosion

Exhibited

Delft 1950, no. 323, fig. 11

Literature

Literature:
Philips / Dubbe no. 1

Related Literature:
Verster 1954, fig. 3

Haedeke 1963, pp. 130-135

Keulen Zinn 1976, fig. 109-114

Dubbe 1978, p. 178, 183, fig. 61

Boijmans 2005, no. 220