A fine façon de Venise armorial Stangenglas South German or Hall-in-Tyrol, dated 1588

of light-greyish tint, the tall cylindrical form painted and gilt on each side with the coats-of-arms of Schlumpff and Krafft, the first with three dark blue powder-horns on a gold ground, the reverse with three slanting beams with arabesques on a red ground, inscribed in gilding GOT ALLEIN DIE EHR 1588 above and MARTIN SCHLUMPFF below, all within two gilt bands with enamel dots, set on a high spreading foot with spreading folded rim

Anon. sale, Kunsthaus am Museum, Carola van Ham Auktion, Cologne, No.33, 14th March 1968, lot 85

Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 1968, Meisterwerke der Glaskunst aus internationalem Privatbesitz, no.136

A.von Saldern, Meisterwerke der Glaskunst aus internationalem Privatbesitz, no.136
A.von Saldern and B.Klesse, 500 Jahre Glaskunst. Sammlung Biemann, p.310, no.263
B.Klesse and H.Mayr, European Glass 1500-1800. The Ernesto Wolf Collection, no.48, mentioned

A companion to this glass, also dated 1588, is in the Badischen Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe (Inv. Nr. C6545). The Schlumpffs were a Nuremberg family (see L.Fuchs, 'Die frühen suddeutschen Wappenhumpen', Munich Jahrbuch, NF 12, 1937/38, p.230, pl.8). According to a letter, however, from the Stadtarchivs Nürnberg of 20th February 1974 to the Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, Martin Schlumpff was not born in Nuremberg. The Kraft or Krafft family - later Krafft von Dellmensingen - came from Ulm and are today resident in Bavaria.