Auction 75 Antiques & Works of Art

350

Miniature of a canon


Estimate

4.000 - 6.000


Session 2

15 March 2018



Description

Façon de Venise blown glass
Molded decoration
Mask-shaped muzzle; knob and cascable with traces of gilding
Possibly Dutch, second half of the 16th century
(small losses)

Length: 28 cm


Category

Glass


Additional Information

Very similar piece at the Rijksmuseum collection, Amsterdam.
Literature:
Pieter C. Ritsema van Eck, Henrica M. Zijlstra-Zweens, "Glass in the Rijksmuseum", p. 76, n.98.



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