Live Auction 4212Christie's Interiors - Masters & Makers
A FAÇON-DE-VENISE BEER GLASS
Lot 249 PROPERTY OF THE WUNSCH FOUNDATION

A FAÇON-DE-VENISE BEER GLASS

CIRCA 1580-1620, LOW COUNTRIES

Closed4 December 2012

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GBP 1,500

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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE BEER GLASS
CIRCA 1580-1620, LOW COUNTRIES
Of smoky tint, the flared cylindrical body with trailed ornament, re-heated and fluted, applied with three prunts reserved with a turquoise 'jewel', supported on a footrim with a kick-in base
6 5/8 in. (16.9 cm.) high

With W. Bastiaan Blok, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 1993.

Specialist note

A similar vessel is pictured in a still life by Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Smoking Implements, Herring, and Overturned Jug, 1627, in the Timken Museum of Art, San Diego.