Live Auction 1147European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries
A FAÇON-DE-VENISE LARGE GOBLET
Lot 345 Property from the Estate of Eric Martin Wunsch (lots 333-357)

A FAÇON-DE-VENISE LARGE GOBLET

MID-16TH CENTURY, PERHAPS HALL-IN-TYROL OR FRANCE

Closed2 October 2013

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GBP 16,250

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A FAÇON-DE-VENISE LARGE GOBLET
MID-16TH CENTURY, PERHAPS HALL-IN-TYROL OR FRANCE
With flared conical bowl on a hollow compressed knop moulded with diamond latticework pattern, enriched in gilding, on a raised spreading domed foot and folded footrim, slight flaking to gilding, minor scratching to bowl
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a closely related goblet attributed to Hall-in-Tyrol or France see Dwight P. Lanmon and David B. Whitehouse, Glass in the Robert Lehman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993, p. 127, no. 45. A further example also attributed to Hall-in-Tyrol or France is illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg, Lingen, 1994, pp. 208, no. 185. A similar goblet with moulded knop and bowl is in the collection of the Germanische Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, see Lanmon and Whitehouse, ibid., p. 128 fig. 45.1; and another from the Mühleib Collection was sold at Bonham's, London, 2 May 2013, lot 8.