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A Silesian engraved beaker, Riesengebirge, circa 1700

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Silesian engraved beaker, Riesengebirge, circa 1700

The flared cylindrical form decorated on one side with a soldier on horseback charging before marching troops and a military encampment, with a rising sun on the horizon, the reverse panel depicting a Turkish battle scene, including a fallen horse and soldiers, with a fortified city in the background, both scenes within oval panels flanked by martial trophies, 11.2cm high (rim chip)

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Provenance:
The Dietmar Zoedler Collection, sold at Sotheby's London, 21 November 2007, lot 8
Sold at Fischer, Heilbronn, 15 October 1988, lot 351

Literature: Dietmar Zoedler, Schlesisches Glas - Schlesische Gläser (1996), pp. 80-81, pl. 31

The scene may depict the battle and siege of Buda (Óbuda), when Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, the defender of Vienna in 1683, and Prince Eugene of Savoy dealt the Ottomans a decisive blow in 1686 and ended 145 years of Turkish occupation of the city, the then capital of Hungary (Buda and Pest were finally united as one city in 1873). Similar examples are in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne, illustrated by Brigitte Klesse, Wilhelm Wagenfeld: 50 Jahre Mitarbeit in Fabriken (1973), cat. 262. See also lot 4 in this sale.

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