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A Bohemian engraved goblet commemorating the Pragmatic Sanction, Riesengebirge, circa 1720-25 image 1
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A Bohemian engraved goblet commemorating the Pragmatic Sanction, Riesengebirge, circa 1720-25

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

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A Bohemian engraved goblet commemorating the Pragmatic Sanction, Riesengebirge, circa 1720-25

The tall round funnel bowl decorated with three coats of arms within circular medallions, including the Austro-Hungarian double-headed eagle, its breast adorned with a shield depicting the Austrian Bindenschild on the right and the Hungarian royal coat of arms on the left, beneath the Emperor's crown and the inscription AVGVSDISSIMA PATRONANZA (Majestic Protection), flanked on both sides by martial trophies, the Bohemian two-tailed crowned lion beneath the King's crown in a medallion to the left and the Silesian crowned eagle beneath a Duke's coronet in one to the right, set on a faceted inverted baluster stem inset with ruby and aventurine threads, between two collars, over a conical foot, 19.6cm high (tiny chip to rim)

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Provenance:
Sold at Fischer, Heilbronn, 17 October 1998, lot 398

The overall decoration with the coats of arms of Bohemia and Silesia commemorates the Emperor Charles VI's Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, securing the succession to the Austrian throne by a female Habsburg (his eldest daughter, Maria Theresia), in the absence of a male heir.

A very similar goblet is in the Bavarian National Museum, Munich, illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Die Glassammlung des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums München, Vol. II (1982), p. 224, cat. 634. Compare also to the goblet offered as the previous lot in this sale.

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