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Lot 8

Bohemian cameo-engraved blue-overlay goblet, circa 1850-60

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

£1,200 - £1,500

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Bohemian cameo-engraved blue-overlay goblet, circa 1850-60

Possibly by Karl Pfohl, Steinschönau, the round funnel bowl overlaid in deep cobalt blue and cut and engraved through to the clear glass with a gentleman cradling his child, after Theodore Hildebrand, the reverse with four oval panels of gothic style scrollwork, on a slender octagonal knopped stem and spreading foot cut with oval windows, 28.1cm high

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Provenance:
With Glass Gallery Michael Kovacek, Vienna
The Hida Takayama Museum of Art, Japan, Sotheby's 17 December 2003, lot 59
The Chris Crabtree Collection, sold in these rooms 19 May 2010, lot 142

Literature:
Michael Kovacek, Glass of Five Centuries (1990), p.213, no.160
The Hida Takayama Museum of Art, catalogue, illustrated p.69, no.H.045

The panel is a copy of 'The Warrior and his Child' painted in 1832 by Theodore Hildebrand (1804-1874). The original is now in the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf. See G.Pazaurek, Gläser der Empire und Biedermeierzeit (1923), pp.67ff and W.Spiegl, Glas des Historismus (1980), p.205

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