THE FIRST CIRCA 1740, GERMANY OR THE NETHERLANDS, THE SECOND 18TH/19TH CENTURY, FRANCE OR SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS OR BOHEMIA

Details

A façon de Venise ring-handled joke glass and a cannon-shaped joke glass
THE FIRST CIRCA 1740, GERMANY OR THE NETHERLANDS, THE SECOND 18TH/19TH CENTURY, FRANCE OR SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS OR BOHEMIA
The funnel bowl applied with handles to suspend rings and with a pincered thread to the centre, the lower part applied with wavy prunted bands, on a meres and knopped stem enclosing an elongated tear, the conical foot folded (five rings lacking and two loop handles broken), 16.3 cm. high and a cannon-shaped flask or kogelfles containing a bullet, the barrel-shaped body applied with pincered threads, with diamond-pattern ornaments, 20.4 cm. high (2)

Literature

Duysters, 2002, p. 121 no. 100 and p. 129 no. 108.

Exhibited

H.M.A., invent. no. VS 23 & VS 182.

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Lot Essay

+ing-handled goblets were used as joke glasses. The first who had emptied the glass shook it so that the rings were tinkling. This vessel is an 18th century model inspired by 16th and 17th century examples.
Cannon-shaped drinkuit vessels were used as joke glasses. While drinking, the bullet would roll into the narrow neck and would make drinking nearly impossible.

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