Description
Potsdamer Henkelbecher
Colorless glass, blown, ground and cut, slightly waisted beaker with smooth rim and attached handle, frontally above leaf frieze small armor, its arrows glowing in a fire, above motto "Die liebe ist niemahls Ruhig", below the lip blown ball frieze, h 8.9 cm, Potsdam ~1720, good condition, undamaged 0610 This typical beaker shape is found without handle in Potsdam until the middle of the 18th century. A formally identical cup with a comparable cut but without a handle is in the Stadtmuseum Berlin (Inv.No. II 63/1 A), cf.: https://sammlung-online.stadtmuseum.de/Details/Index/1375110 Prov.: Collection Gottfried Wilhelm Butze (1821 - 1897, Regierungsrat in Berlin), Johann Franz Wilhelm Butze (1857 - 1912, Regierungsrat in Berlin and Arolsen), property of the heirs
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