Fine European Ceramics and Glass

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Lot 278
  • 278

A German enamelled blue-tinted pistol flask Bohemian or Saxon, dated 1619

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • 37cm., 14½in.
in the form of a hollow wheel-lock pistol, the barrel ending with a pewter mount, painted with stylised trigger mechanisms and scrollwork, with globular stock, applied wheel with traces of gilding, applied with a trail, inscribed Anno 1619

Provenance

With Osterle, Munich, 7th April 1973
Fritz and Mary Biemann Collection, Zurich

Literature

A.von Saldern and B.Klesse, 500 Jahre Glaskunst. Sammlung Biemann, p.318, no.274a
R.von Strasser, Licht und Farbe, p.95, no.45

Catalogue Note

See A.von Saldern, Enameled Glass, p.406, no.112 and no.151 for further examples, all with dates within the first twenty years of the 17th century.