Fine European Ceramics and Glass

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Lot 273
  • 273

A large and rare façon de Venise enamelled armorial goblet Hall-in-Tyrol, circa 1540

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • 30.7cm., 12in.
of greyish tint, the flared bowl painted on both sides with two unidentifiable coats-of-arms below a gilt band embellished with enamel dots, set on a collar above a ribbed compressed hollow knop painted with chain ornament, over a flared foot with folded rim

Provenance

Fritz and Mary Biemann Collection, Zurich

Catalogue Note

For the type with a similar rib-moulded knop, painted and gilt with the arms of Dürr and Puccheim, attributed to the glasshouse of Wolfgang Vitl, Hall-in-Tyrol, 1534-1540, see R.von Strasser, Licht und Farbe, pp.27-29, cat.no.3. For a plain example see that sold in our Olympia Rooms, 17th December 2003, lot 7.