A set of four ruby glass cups and saucers with gilded decora - Lot 52

A set of four ruby glass cups and saucers with gilded decoration A set of four ruby glass cups and saucers with gilded decoration South Germany, circa 1700 Cups: H. 5.2 to 5.4 cm; saucers: diam. 10.9 to 11.4 cm Provenance : Emil Mauritz Hünnebeck Collection, Lintorf ; Private collection, Germany; Private collection, France. Exhibition: Barockes Silber aus Rheinischen Sammlungen, Suermondt Museum, Aix-La- Chapelle, 1964, s.n. Bibliography: H. Küpper, Barockes Silber aus Rheinischen Sammlungen, Exhibition catalog: Suermondt Museum, Aachen, 1964; Düsseldorf, 1964, s.n, ill. 126. The ruby glass cups and saucers feature gilded decoration on the outside gilded decoration including a border, birds, flowers and foliage for the cups; a border and a frieze of flowers and foliage for the saucers. Condition: Good, wear to gilding