Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 1
A Dutch moulded serving bottle, late 17th century
20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,912.50 inc. premium
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A Dutch moulded serving bottle, late 17th century
Of rare small size, the Shaft and Globe form coloured in a deep cobalt blue, the globular body moulded with fourteen evenly spaced spiral ribs, a single ring collar on the tall slender neck, applied with an S-shaped handle, a small kick-up underneath the base, 15.8cm high
Footnotes
A decanter bottle of similarly small size, but decorated with 'nipt diamond waies', is illustrated by Willy Van den Bossche, Antique Glass Bottles (2001), p.116, pl.67. Another, but of larger size, was sold by Bonhams on 21 May 2014, lot 19 and is illustrated by Andy McConnell, The Decanter (2019), p.59. A larger ribbed example in amethyst glass is illustrated by Pieter van Eck and Henrica Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Vol.1 (1993), p.190, no.302. Comparable larger ribbed examples without handles are illustrated by John Sandon, Antique Glass (1999), p.75, and by Van den Bossche (2001), p.116, pl.66. Another was sold by Bonhams on 3 November 2016, lot 97.
