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An important Silesian engraved Hochschnitt goblet by Friedrich Winter, Hermsdorf, circa 1700 image 1
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An important Silesian engraved Hochschnitt goblet by Friedrich Winter, Hermsdorf, circa 1700

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

£30,000 - £40,000

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An important Silesian engraved Hochschnitt goblet by Friedrich Winter, Hermsdorf, circa 1700

The conical bowl finely decorated in Hochschnitt with three flowers comprising a peony, a calendula and a fritillaria, surrounded by various insects including a large dragonfly, the base of the bowl cut with a diamond band, set on an inverted baluster stem cut in high relief with stylised acanthus leaves, over a conical foot decorated with a formal foliate border, 16.3cm high

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Provenance:
Sold at Wiener Kunstauktionen, Vienna, 16 May 2001, lot 252

Goblets of similar style by Friedrich Winter and his workshop, engraved with flowers and insects, are illustrated by J.R. Vavra, Das Glas (1954) p. 77, pl. 189, and by Dietmar Zoedler, Schlesisches Glas - Schlesische Gläser (1996), pp. 68-69, figs. 18 and 19. A flower identical to one on the present lot is illustrated by Zoedler on p. 70, fig. 20. Other goblets with similar themes are illustrated by Brigitte Klesse and Axel von Saldern, 500 Jahre Glaskunst (1978), p. 171, cat. 108, sold at Sotheby's London, 16 June 1984, The Fritz Biemann Collection, lot 100, by Brigitte Klesse, Glassammlung Helfried Krug, Vol. II (1973), pp. 172-173, cat. 563, by Olga Drahatova, Gabriel Urbanek and Ivan Kafka, European Glass (1983), p. 107, pl. 71, and can also be found in the Museum für angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, accession no. 5583/4723,239 (see Annaliese Ohm, Europäisches und Aussereuropäisches Glas (1980), pp. 180-181, cat. 389). Compare also the following lot in this sale.

Goblets cut with a similar diamond band at the base of a funnel shaped bowl can be found in the Museum for Applied Art, Prague, accession no. 5014 (see Vavra (1954), p. 78, cat. 191, and in the Focke Museum, Bremen, accession no. 29.2 (see Sabine Baumgärtner, Glaskunst vom Empire bis zum Historismus (1987), p. 143, pl. 126). See also Rudolf von Strasser, Licht und Farbe (2002), pp. 278-279, cat. 161, and von Strasser and Spiegel (1989), pp. 253-254, cat. 113.

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