A rare and important Willem Mooleyser-style Netherlands facon de Venise diamond-engraved hunting drinking horn The glass circa 1600-1650, the engraving circa 1650-1700 (Drinkhoorn) The cornucopia-shaped body modelled as a smooth curved tube, widening towards one end, with a gilt thread to the end, the narrow end terminating in a gilt merese and a knop, further with three double bands of pincered threads, two upholding a tiny loop for hanging, engraved with a hunting scene after Tempesta, depicting: a hunter on horseback holding a spear towards a boar, further with two helpers and three hounds upon a grassy vignette, the upper part with five various animals: a deer; a lion; a camel; a dog and a cat, the lower part with a huge broadwinged swan 33cm. wide
A rare and important Willem Mooleyser-style Netherlands facon de Venise diamond-engraved hunting drinking horn The glass circa 1600-1650, the engraving circa 1650-1700 (Drinkhoorn) The cornucopia-shaped body modelled as a smooth curved tube, widening towards one end, with a gilt thread to the end, the narrow end terminating in a gilt merese and a knop, further with three double bands of pincered threads, two upholding a tiny loop for hanging, engraved with a hunting scene after Tempesta, depicting: a hunter on horseback holding a spear towards a boar, further with two helpers and three hounds upon a grassy vignette, the upper part with five various animals: a deer; a lion; a camel; a dog and a cat, the lower part with a huge broadwinged swan 33cm. wide
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