Live Auction 1147European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries
A LARGE PALE GREEN-TINTED CALLIGRAPHIC COPPER-WHEEL-ENGRAVED ROEMER
Lot 336 Property from the Estate of Eric Martin Wunsch (lots 333-357)

A LARGE PALE GREEN-TINTED CALLIGRAPHIC COPPER-WHEEL-ENGRAVED ROEMER

LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE NETHERLANDS

Closed2 October 2013

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A LARGE PALE GREEN-TINTED CALLIGRAPHIC COPPER-WHEEL-ENGRAVED ROEMER
LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE NETHERLANDS
The tapering bowl engraved in calligraphic script Valeant qui Inter nos Difsidium Volunt. (those who desire to spread discord among us will need strength) amongst flourishes and scrolls, above a cylindrical stem applied with prunts, on an applied trailed flared footrim, short crack to underside of foot
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high

Private collection, Haarlem.
Mr and Mrs Fritz Biemann, Küsnacht; sale Sotheby's, London, 16 June 1984, lot 20.
Joseph R. Ritman; sale Sotheby's, London, 14 November 1995, lot 28.
The Hida Takayama Museum of Art, Takayama, Japan; sale Sotheby's London, 19 December 2002, lot 31.

Specialist note

A roemer engraved apparently by the same hand is in the collection of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, see Beatrice Jansen, Catalogus van Noord- en zuidnederlands glas, The Hague, 1962, pp. 70-71, no. 117.