The globular body is set on a ring base, the funnel neck with a single band of encircling trail where the applied right-angled handles join the neck, with pinched thumb-spurs....
The globular body is set on a ring base, the funnel neck with a single band of encircling trail where the applied right-angled handles join the neck, with pinched thumb-spurs.
Condition Intact with minor wear, scratching and encrustation. A cloudy iridescence on one side.
Monsieur Demeulenaere Collection Hotel Drouot, Paris, Verres Antiques et de l'Islam, Ancienne collection de Monsieur D., 3-4 June 1985, lot 492 Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1990, lot 368 Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1991, lot 226 Bonhams, London, 29 April 2009, lot 101 Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection, the Netherlands, acquired from the above sale
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The style of this vessel has similarities with examples from Western Europe, probably the Rhineland.