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A Netherlands façon de Venise drinking horn, late 16th/early 17th century

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Netherlands façon de Venise drinking horn, late 16th/early 17th century

Probably Antwerp, in the shape of a long, curved horn applied with a series of meandering trailed rings, the tip with graduated beads picked out in gold, the folded rim also with traces of gilding, two lug handles for suspension, 49.2cm long (small repair to trailing)

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Provenance:
From the Estate of Christopher Sheppard

For three similar examples see van Eck and Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass in the Rijksmuseum (1993), vol.1, pp.206-7, figs.331-333. A further example in Amsterdam is dated 1590 in a diamond point inscription. An example in the British Museum has an inscription including the dates 1595 and 1599. An example with a diamond-point armorial was in the Wunsch Collection, Christie's 6 December 2012, lot 139.

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