Live Auction 1147European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries
A CRIZZLED SWEDISH COPPER-WHEEL-ENGRAVED CROWNED AND MONOGRAMMED LARGE ROEMER AND COVER
Lot 349 Property from the Estate of Eric Martin Wunsch (lots 333-357)

A CRIZZLED SWEDISH COPPER-WHEEL-ENGRAVED CROWNED AND MONOGRAMMED LARGE ROEMER AND COVER

FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY, KUNGSHOLM

Closed2 October 2013

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GBP 1,500

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A CRIZZLED SWEDISH COPPER-WHEEL-ENGRAVED CROWNED AND MONOGRAMMED LARGE ROEMER AND COVER
FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY, KUNGSHOLM
The domed cover with knop finial, applied with four raspberry prunts and trailed border, engraved with berried leaves, laurel and a flower-spray, the globular bowl engraved with a crowned mirrored monogram GGL within berried branches, the reverse with a sunburst, a rose and a flower-spray, on a broad hollow cylindrical stem applied with raspberry prunts above an applied trailed band, on a spreading domed foot similarly engraved with flowering branches, extensively crizzled
13 in. (33 cm.) high

Specialist note

The Kungsholm glassworks were founded in Stockholm in 1688, and they became the first glassworks to produce engraved glass in Sweden. Many of the engravers working at the manufactory came from Germany bringing with them a combination of Germanic techniques and forms. Kungsholm's clients included both royal and noble households; the central coronet and monogram on the present roemer is most likely for a prominent Swedish noble. For a similar roemer and cover engraved with the royal arms of Sweden and dated 1717 see Anne-Marie Ericsson, Derek E. Ostergard and Nina Stritzler-Levine (ed.), The Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-1939: An Alliance of Art and Industry, Exhibition Catalogue, The Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 1996, p. 88, fig. 6.4. See also a similar crowned and monogrammed roemer and cover sold at Bukowskis, Stockholm, 7 December 2011, lot 629.