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Lot 57*
A North Bohemian (Harrachsdorf) engraved goblet by Dominik Biemann, Franzensbad, circa 1830-35
26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
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A North Bohemian (Harrachsdorf) engraved goblet by Dominik Biemann, Franzensbad, circa 1830-35
The generous cup-shaped bowl with a circular medallion cut in high relief, finely decorated with a prancing horse and jumping foal, the reverse with a small round viewing lens, the sides with ovoid lenses, set on a large collar cut with a band of circlets, over an octagonal faceted spreading foot with a scalloped rim and star-cut base, 19.4cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Former Collection of Heinrich LXXII, Prince Reuss (1797-1853), and his heirs, sold at Christie's, Gera, Germany, 26 May 1998, lot 86
Literature:
Paul von Lichtenberg, Glasgravuren des Biedermeier (2004), p. 55, fig. 53
Exhibited:
Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 7 May until 19 September 2004.
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 21 November 2004 until 20 February 2005.
Horses were a favoured subject of the aristocratic or up-and-coming affluent clients Dominik Biemann catered for in the spa Franzensbad. This specialisation is demonstrated in the quality and conception of the engraving on the present goblet, which is typical of his work. A comparable goblet decorated with horses by Biemann is illustrated by Rudolf von Strasser and Sabine Baumgärtner, Licht und Farbe (2002), pp. 520-522, cat. 361. A goblet of identical form signed by Biemann, but decorated with a Fox Hunt, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. 1982.97.10, illustrated by von Lichtenberg (2004), p. 85, cat. 58, fig. 88, and also by Gustav Pazaurek and Eugen von Philippovich, Gläser der Empire- und Biedermeierzeit (1976), p. 106, fig. 99.
A similar goblet with a faceted bowl showing a circus horse with groomsman, signed, dated and inscribed Souvenir de Franzensbad by Biemann, is illustrated by von Lichtenberg (2004), p. 111, figs. 130 and 131. Other goblets of similar form engraved by Dominik Biemann are illustrated by von Lichtenberg on p. 54, fig. 52 and also by Walter Spiegl, Biedermeier-Gläser (1981), p. 79, fig. 77, and by von Lichtenberg, p. 55, fig. 54.