Snake glass Verre à serpent - image-1

Lot 1511 Dα

Snake glass Verre à serpent

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 6.000 € (incl. premium)
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Snake glass
Verre à serpent

Clear glass with red and white cane inclusions. Domed base supporting a slender shaft with blue glass "wing" appliques and a tapering cup. H 27, cup D 9.3, D base 10.1 cm.
Attributed to Bonhomme glass makers in Liège, third quarter 17th C.

Literature

Cf. Klesse, Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln. Glas, Cologne 1963, cat. no. 218 ff., for an almost identical goblet attributed to "Antwerp, 17th C.".
Cf. v. Saldern, Glas. Antike bis Jugendstil. Die Sammlung im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Stuttgart 1995, cat. no. 35.
Cf. Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg, Lingen 1994, no. 331 ff. for numerous comparable examples in public collections.
Cf. also a goblet in the Louvre (inv. no. OA 1058).