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A fine enamelled and gilt armorial Stangenglas, probably Hall in Tyrol, Glasshouse of Sebastian Höchstetter or Court Glasshouse, Innsbruck, circa 1570-80
2 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£40,000 - £60,000
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A fine enamelled and gilt armorial Stangenglas, probably Hall in Tyrol, Glasshouse of Sebastian Höchstetter or Court Glasshouse, Innsbruck, circa 1570-80
The tall cylindrical form of grey tint with gilt band to the base, set on a tall spreading foot with folded rim, painted on both sides with coats of arms incorporating a lion rampant in blue and white enriched with gilding, the lion with a white ribbon bearing the initials IH and MG, the rim with a gilt band imbricated with scales and applied with blue enamel dots between white dotted borders, 28.3cm high, applied paper label indistinctly inscribed
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Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 30 June 1980, lot 194
With Heide Hübner, Würzburg, 1981
For the type see the example from the Mühsam Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, circa 1575, illustrated by Axel von Saldern, German Enameled Glass (1965), p.45, fig.22. See also Brigitte Klesse and Axel von Saldern, 500 Jahre Glaskunst, Sammlung Biemann (1978), p.309, no.262.















