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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS DIAMOND-POINT-ENGRAVED ARMORIAL DRINKING-HORN
Lot 139 PROPERTY OF THE WUNSCH FOUNDATION

A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS DIAMOND-POINT-ENGRAVED ARMORIAL DRINKING-HORN

CIRCA 1620, THE NETHERLANDS

Closed6 December 2012

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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE GLASS DIAMOND-POINT-ENGRAVED ARMORIAL DRINKING-HORN
CIRCA 1620, THE NETHERLANDS
Of conventional form, with a turnover rim and knopped terminal, applied with three double waived bands of trailed ornament and a single band, engraved with a coat-of-arms above a motto suspending a hunting horn before a building on a mound, traces of gilding
13 in. (33 cm.) long

H.C. van Vliet, Amsterdam.

Specialist note

For another armorial drinking horn see Pieter C. Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Zwolle, 1995, Vol. II, pp. 88-9, no. 70. The Rijksmuseum example was bequeathed in 1907 with an accompanying letter from 1702 describing the pieces provenance, originally from the Van Collens family whose arms the horn bears, and the descendants of Pieter Seullijn who owned the horn prior to his death in 1649.