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Lot 51

A German pale green flask, 17th century, and a wartzenglas tankard

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£400 - £600

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A German pale green flask, 17th century, and a wartzenglas tankard

The Rhenish pale green glass flask in the shape of a barrel trailed all-over with a thin milled spiral, 20.5cm long (neck reduced and repaired), the moulded tankard, probably 19th century, in clear glass with a strap handle, moulded all over with tear-shaped drops, 13.5cm high
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Provenance:
The Estate of Christopher Sheppard
The tankard from the Friedleben Collection, Hannover

A very similar barrel flask in the Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt is illustrated in the catalogue Glass (1973), p.118, fig.267

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