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A Bohemian engraved Royal beaker and cover, circa 1683

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

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A Bohemian engraved Royal beaker and cover, circa 1683

The slightly flared cylindrical form decorated with the equestrian figure of Leopold I surrounded by martial trophies, the reverse inscribed hodie mihi Cras tibi (today me, tomorrow you) and symbolically decorated with two suns, one shooting an arrow at a crescent-moon face, all below the words Sol (Sun) and Justitiae (Justice), an upside-down eagle holding a sword and sceptre in its talons and pecking at a crescent-moon face from atop a fallen column on the ground below, a pedestal embellished with pairs of fleur-de-lis and crescent-moon faces to the right, on top of which still stands a column bearing the shield of France beneath a crown, the matching domed cover similarly decorated with martial trophies and the Imperial eagle, with ball knop, 16.5cm high (tiny chip to flange of cover) (2)

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Provenance:
With Glasgalerie Michael Kovacek, Vienna
Sold at Fischer, Heilbronn, 17 October 1998, lot 401

This complex engraving symbolises the political arena following the defeat of the Turks at Vienna in 1683, thereby ending forever the threat of the Ottoman Empire to central Europe. The enemy of the House of Habsburg (under Emperor Leopold I), continued to be France (under King Louis XIV), who had been an ally of the Turks. The toppled column with the crescent-moon face, which is being attacked by the Austrian eagle, symbolises the utter defeat of the Ottomans by Austria and its allies, while the column with the French insignia still stands.

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