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A fine North Bohemian engraved triple-portrait goblet by Dominik Biemann, Franzensbad, dated 1849 image 1
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A fine North Bohemian engraved triple-portrait goblet by Dominik Biemann, Franzensbad, dated 1849 image 3
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A fine North Bohemian engraved triple-portrait goblet by Dominik Biemann, Franzensbad, dated 1849 image 5
A fine North Bohemian engraved triple-portrait goblet by Dominik Biemann, Franzensbad, dated 1849 image 6
Lot 67

A fine North Bohemian engraved triple-portrait goblet by Dominik Biemann, Franzensbad, dated 1849

2 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A fine North Bohemian engraved triple-portrait goblet by Dominik Biemann, Franzensbad, dated 1849

Signed, the slightly flared cylindrical bowl with three raised oval medallions, each decorated with an intaglio bust portrait of a child to dexter, set on a an hexagonal stem and foot, inscribed on the base Franzensbad 1849. 15.4cm high, signed B on one of the portraits

Footnotes

Provenance:
A Lady of Title, sold at Sotheby's, 3 December 1979, lot 221


Exhibited:
On loan to Heide Hübner, Würzburg, for her exhibition, 1988
Landesmuseum Joanneum (today: Universalmuseum Joanneum), Graz and Stiftung museum kunst palast (today: Museum Kunstpalast), Düsseldorf, 2004-2005, 'Glasgravuren des Biedermeier, Dominik Biemann und Zeitgenossen, 1800-1860'

Literature:
Sabine Baumgärtner, 'Unbekannte Gläser aus drei Privatsammlungen', Weltkunst, Nr.19 (1988), p.2822ff
Kurt Pittrof, Dominik Biemann (1993), p.95, I.73
Paul von Lichtenberg, Glasgravuren des Biedermeier (2004), p.135, no.103

For a full discussion of this goblet see von Lichtenberg, op.cit. (2004), pp.135-137.

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