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AN OCTAGONAL-SECTION GLASS BEAKER (STANGENGLAS MIT TIERKOPFNUPPEN)
Lot 231 PROPERTY OF THE WUNSCH FOUNDATION

AN OCTAGONAL-SECTION GLASS BEAKER (STANGENGLAS MIT TIERKOPFNUPPEN)

FIRST HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY, GERMAN

Closed4 December 2012

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AN OCTAGONAL-SECTION GLASS BEAKER (STANGENGLAS MIT TIERKOPFNUPPEN)
FIRST HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY, GERMAN
Of pale green/yellow tint, the straight-sided wrythen-moulded bowl with four zoomorphic prunts between applied pincered flamiform ornament and milled bands, supported on a conical foot
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high

With W. Bastiaan Blok, Noordwijk, from whom it was acquired April 1994.

Specialist note

For a discussion of this group of early drinking vessels and related examples see Erwin Baumgartner and Ingeborg Kreuger, Phönix aus Sand und Asche Glas des Mittelalters, Munich, 1988, pp. 399-407.