Live Auction 5927Christie's Interiors - Masters & Makers
Lot 386

A DIAMOND-POINT-ENGRAVED WINE GLASS

CIRCA 1680, LOW COUNTRIES

Closed29 September 2009

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GBP 2,750

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A DIAMOND-POINT-ENGRAVED WINE GLASS
CIRCA 1680, LOW COUNTRIES
The conical bowl engraved with birds among flowering branches, supported by a hollow quatrelobed stem between bladed knops, above a folded conical foot
5¼ in. (13.4 cm.) high

Plesch collection (Gg 13L); The Henry Brown Colletion, sale, Sotheby's, 29th July 1947, lot 188; anon. sale, Sotheby's, 20th May 1963, lot 49.

Specialist note

See Pieter C. Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, 1995) Vol. III, pp. 85-6, nos. 65-67.