16th & 17th century glass

Spiked gadrooning

Wineglass with spiked gadrooning and two quatrefoil knobs.

France or The Netherlands.

First half seventeenth century.

Wine glasses with kind of bowl one seas reguarly on paintings by Sebastiaan Stosskopf, from the first half of the seventeenth century. They appear to be made à la fa`con de Venise, but it is still not clear where exactly. The city of Antwerp has often been suggested.