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A Bohemian engraved beaker, Riesengebirge, late 17th century

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT

London, New Bond Street

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A Bohemian engraved beaker, Riesengebirge, late 17th century

In the manner of the Master of the Koula beaker, the slightly flared cylindrical form decorated with two battle scenes of different complexity and size, separated by two large trees, the larger scene depicting a large group of armed soldiers and cavalrymen crossing a bridge spanning a river, a crucifix at the midpoint, with a group of soldiers engaging in battle to the right surrounded by gun-smoke, the smaller scene showing soldiers on foot and horseback, with two fallen soldiers in the foreground and a castle on top of a hill on the horizon, the whole between formal borders of printies, the base cut with further printies, 12.7cm high

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Provenance:
With Galerie von Spaeth, Munich

Thick-walled and deeply engraved Bohemian beakers such as this, produced in the late 17th or early 18th century, are often compared with the Koula beaker in the Decorative Arts Museum, Prague, accession no. 30.720/1849. The scene on the present lot probably depicts a battle during the Turkish wars towards the end of the 17th century. For a similar beaker see Brigitte Klesse, Glassammlung Helfried Krug, Vol. I (1965), pp. 188-189, cat. 178. A smaller beaker, lot 10 in this sale, shows a very similar scene.

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