220 ITALIAN GLASS
385- Covered Filigrana Pokal
Glass: Venice, third quarter of the sixteenth
century
Mounts: German, circa 1585-1600
Free- and mold-blown soda glass or cristallo
and httimo, vetro a reticelh with silver-gilt
mounts
Engraved on the lip mount, -SEI
WILLKUMEN MEIN HAUS - SEZ AN
UND TRINK AUS - TRAG FRID NIT
HINAUS -. Stamped on the brim of the
cover, a pinecone for the city of Augsburg
and the monogram MB, the maker's mark
of Mathaeus Waldbaum (active in Augsburg
1582-1630/32).
Height: 1 ft. % in. (31.3 cm)
Accession number 84 .DK.513
PROVENANCE
Ruth and Leopold Blumka, New York.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1984," GettyMusJii (1985),
no. 193, p. 246, illus.; Handbook 1991, p. 208,
illus.- Umbo Filigrana Vase
Venice, late sixteenth century
Free- and mold-blown soda glass or cristallo
and httimo, vetro a retorti
Height: 8V3 in. (21.6 cm)
Accession number 84 .DK.656
PROVENANCE
John Malcolm, Poltalloch (1805-1893);
Col. George Malcolm, Poltalloch (sold,
Christie's, London, February 8,1977,
lot 241); [David, Inc., Vaduz].
EXHIBITIONS
Venice, Palazzo Ducale, Museo Correr,
Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia, 1982,
p. 31; no. 163, p. 124.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Johanna Lessmann, "Meisterwerke der
Glaskunst aus Renaissance und Barock,"
Weltkunst 47, no. 8 (April 15,1977), p. 791;
"Acquisitions/1984," GettyMusJi?, (1985),
no. 194, p. 246, illus.386