Fine European Ceramics and Glass

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Lot 277
  • 277

A Bohemian enamelled pewter-mounted blue-tinted glass jug dated 1608

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • 19cm., 7½in.
the ovoid form painted with a broad band of stylised fruit and leaf scroll within concentric bands below a cylindrical neck inscribed 1608 within an enamel dotted trailed collar at the base and a trail under the rim, applied scroll handle and domed hinged cover, applied trailed foot

Provenance

Fritz and Mary Biemann Collection, Zurich

Catalogue Note

For the form see the example from the Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, illustrated by A.von Saldern, German Enameled Glass, p.167, fig.300, dated 1594. See also B.Klesse and A.von Saldern, op.cit., p.312, no.266 and p.314, no.268.