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A rare green-tinted berkemeyer, Dutch or German, mid 16th century

5 June 2019, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare green-tinted berkemeyer, Dutch or German, mid 16th century

The conical bowl rising from a cylindrical base applied with two rows of pointed prunts beneath a single trailed thread, the pincered footrim forming a series of 'toes', with surface encrustation from burial, 10cm high

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Provenance
Sotheby's sale, 11 May 1999, lot 74
Private Collection, London

A similar example, also excavated, is in the H.J.E. van Beuningen collection, illustrated by Baumgartner & Krueger, Phönix aus Sand und Asche (1988), p.365, fig.450. See also Franz Rademacher, Die Deutschen Gläser des Mittelalters (1963), pl.36, figs a and b, and Walther Bremen, Katalog Der Sammlung Bremen in Krefeld (1964), p.322, figs 137 and 137a. John Sandon, Antique Glass (1999) shows a berkemeyer of similar shape on p.68 and see p.63 for a detail of a painting by Georg Glegel (1563-1638) featuring a related berkemeyer.

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