Live Auction 1147European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries
AN ARMORIAL MONOGRAMMED AND DATED DIAMOND-POINT-ENGRAVED TALL FLUTE
Lot 357 Property from the Estate of Eric Martin Wunsch (lots 333-357)

AN ARMORIAL MONOGRAMMED AND DATED DIAMOND-POINT-ENGRAVED TALL FLUTE

1655, THE NETHERLANDS

Closed2 October 2013

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GBP 15,000

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AN ARMORIAL MONOGRAMMED AND DATED DIAMOND-POINT-ENGRAVED TALL FLUTE
1655, THE NETHERLANDS
Of slender tapering form, engraved with the crowned coats-of-arms of the Seven United Provinces above a church and house in continuous landscape suspending pendant swags of fruit, with the monogram CFM and date 1655 below, on a hollow inverted baluster stem between mereses, on a spreading folded foot
14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) high

Specialist note

See the similar armorial flute also monogrammed CFM in the Rijksmuseum, illustrated by Pieter C. Ritsema Van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Vol. II, Amsterdam, 1995, pp. 54-55, no. 26.