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A Silesian engraved beaker, Riesengebirge, circa 1700
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A Silesian engraved beaker, Riesengebirge, circa 1700
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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.















