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Lot 46*

A Lower Styrian engraved beaker by Hieronymus Hackel, circa 1815

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

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A Lower Styrian engraved beaker by Hieronymus Hackel, circa 1815

The cylindrical form decorated with an altar inscribed ZUM ANDENKEN (In Memory) within a circular cartouche, a covered urn to the right and a shield bearing the initials VG to the left, a basket of flowers standing on top of the altar and a dove perched on the branch of a truncated tree above, carrying a laurel wreath in its beak, the sun rising in the background, the rim with a formal foliate and line border, the base with diamond-cut band and thumbnail facets, 10.3cm high

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Provenance:
The Ernst Busson Collection, Graz
The Irmgard Müller-Mezin Collection, Graz
Private Collection, South Germany
Sold at Wiener Kunstauktionen, Vienna, 24 October 2000, lot 53
With Glasgalerie Kovacek, Vienna, 2000 (catalogue, no. 21)

Literature:
Paul von Lichtenberg, Hieronymus Hackel: Mojster vzhajajočega sonca (2005), pp. 63-64, pl. 32, cat. 21

Exhibited:
'Hieronymus Hackel: Mojster vzhajajočega sonca', Pokrajinski muzej Celje, Slovenia, 1 June until 9 October 2005

This is a relatively early piece by Hieronymus Hackel. The truncated tree with lush branches symbolises the resurrection of VG, although it is unclear to whom these initials refer. For a similar beaker with an altar and monogram, see the marriage beaker illustrated by von Lichtenberg (2005), pls. 55-58, cat. 35. See also Paul von Lichtenberg, Glasgravuren des Biedermeier (2004), pp. 223-227, figs. 221-228, cats. 141-144, for beakers with similar themes and decoration engraved by Hackel. Compare also to the beaker offered as the following lot in this sale.

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