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178 - AN EXCEPTIONAL BOHEMIAN AMBER STAINED GLASS GOBLET AND CROWN COVER C. 1850-70
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£6,000 - 8,000 (€7,100 - 9,600)Sale fees
AN EXCEPTIONAL BOHEMIAN AMBER STAINED GLASS GOBLET AND CROWN COVER C. 1850-70 probably the Harrachov Glassworks, the mid 19th century cup and cover remarkably formed as a coronet or crown with pierced panels of hobnail-cut diaper pattern pierced in between, surmounted by an orb forming the finial, the cup-shaped body with a rectangular panel engraved with a huntsman on horse with a pack of hounds hunting a stag in a wooded landscape, the reverse of the bowl with further diaper pattern panels and a viewing lens within a sunburst, raised on an eight-sided spreading stem deeply cut at the base and underneath with fan-shaped barbs, 39cm high Footnote: The present vase is identical except for the engraved panel to a further example sold at Bonhams, London, Masterpieces of Bohemian Glass, lot 23, £22,500. Related Literature: For a further amber-stained goblet in this shape see John Sandon, Antique Glass (1999), p.107. A crown cover of related shape occurs on a goblet engraved by Dominik Biemann with a portrait of Archduke Franz Karl, see Paul von Lichtenberg, Glasgravuren des Biedermeier, p.119, fig.88. According to Michael Kovacek, Glass of Five Centuries (1990), p.188, crown-shaped covers were a speciality of the Harrachov glassworks.
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