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Lot 43

A Bohemian beaker and silver cover attributed to Franz Hansel, Rodowitz, dated 1839

11 December 2013, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Bohemian beaker and silver cover attributed to Franz Hansel, Rodowitz, dated 1839

In clear glass cut with pillar flutes with central lenses or printies, the circular panel finely engraved with a Turk on a galloping horse, his sword outstretched in front and his head turned to look back as he charges, landscape with mountains in the distance, the silver cover with borders of shells and diaper, ball finial, with silver marks for Prague, 1839, 17.7cm high overall, the beaker 13.7cm without the cover (2)

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A beaker with an almost-identical engraved panel is illustrated by Paul von Lichtenberg, Glasgravuren des Biedermeier (2004), p.252, fig.270, here attributed to Franz Hansel.

The same subject is also engraved on a goblet in the Passau Glasmuseum, see Georg Höltl, Das Böhmische Glas 1700-1950, vol.2 Empire-Biedermeier, p.126, fig.170. The catalogue suggests this is engraved by August Böhm. See also lot 50 in this sale for the same subject on an amber-stained goblet. Paul von Lichtenberg, op cit, p.251 refers to two other pieces with this subject offered in Dr Fischer's auctions in Heilbronn in 1990 and 1999. A further covered beaker in the Corning Museum is illustrated by Walter Spiegl, Biedermeier-Glaser (1981), p.82, fig.81

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