A STEMMED-GLASS (KRAUTSTRUNK)
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A STEMMED-GLASS (KRAUTSTRUNK)

CIRCA 1500, GERMAN

Closed6 December 2012

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A STEMMED-GLASS (KRAUTSTRUNK)
CIRCA 1500, GERMAN
Of watery-green tint, the compressed bowl with an everted rim above a thread, applied with a band of prunts above a pinched collar, on a baluster stem supported by an openwork foot
4 5/8 in. (11.5 cm.) high

Archibal Sterling of Kier, Perthshire.
With Reiner Zietz, Ltd., London.

Specialist note

A similar Krautstrunk from the Karl Amendt Collection, reputedly found in Cologne, is illustrated by Erwin Baumgartner and Ingeborg Kreuger, Phönix aus Sand und Asche Glas des Mittelalters, Munich, 1988, pp. 411-412, no. 515 and again in Erwin Baumgartner, Glas des Mittelalters und der Renaissance Die Sammlung Karl Amendt, Dusseldorf, 2005, p. 103, cat. no. 47.

A glass similar to the present example appears in 'The Supper of Saint Benedict and the Curé de Monte Preclaro', part of a winged altar of 1552 by Jan van Coninxloo in the Musea voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels. See Erwin Baumgartner 2005, op. cit., p. 47, pl. 27.