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Lot 29

A Bohemian enamelled tankard, late 16th century

British and European Ceramics and Glass

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST

London, Knightsbridge

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A Bohemian enamelled tankard, late 16th century

Of tapering cylindrical form in pale green glass, with a thin trailed handle, the kick-in base with an applied footring, painted with the Crucifixion, Christ nailed to the Tree of Life or a vine with bunches of grapes, flanked by figures of The Virgin and St. John, the reverse with stylised leaf scrolls, the rim with a band of white-dotted rosettes between blue and white dot borders with traces of gilding, mounted with a pewter cover with a globular thumbpiece, 26.5cm high (section of trailing missing)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 30 June 1980, lot 213
With Heide Hübner, Würzburg
The Mühleib Collection, sold by Bonhams 2 May 2013, lot 17
The Estate of Christopher Sheppard

For comparable examples possibly by the same hand see Brigitte Klesse and Axel von Saldern, 500 Jahre Glaskunst, nos. 266 and 287. A similar flask, dated 1574 is in Stuttgart, see Clementine Schack, Glaskunst (1973), p.214. Another with the Risen Christ, dated 1572, is in the Ernesto Wolf Collection illustrated by Brigitte Klesse and Hans Mayr, European Glass 1500-1800 (1987), no.41. An undated example with the Crucifixion is in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Prague, see Walter Bernt, 'Religiöse Darstellung auf alten Hohlgläsern', Die christliche Kunst, XXX no.2 (1933), p.44, ill.p.47.

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