John Sandon
Consultant
Lot 2
A good German or Dutch Daumenglas and cover, late 17th or early 18th century
2 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£2,000 - £3,000
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A good German or Dutch Daumenglas and cover, late 17th or early 18th century
In pale green-tinted glass, the barrel shaped vessel with six large impressed thumb-holes around the middle, the hoops of the barrel represented by milled trails, with an applied ring foot, the domed cover with a teared knop finial, 31cm high (short, fine fracture in the base beside the pontil) (2)
Footnotes
A closely related example with a cover is in the Rijksmuseum, illustrated by van Eck and Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass (1993), vol.1, p.122, fig.168. The indented finger holes allowed a firm grip as these distinctive drinking vessels became heavy when filled.