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A fine and rare Silesian engraved Hochschnitt goblet by Friedrich Winter, Hermsdorf, circa 1700 image 1
A fine and rare Silesian engraved Hochschnitt goblet by Friedrich Winter, Hermsdorf, circa 1700 image 2
A fine and rare Silesian engraved Hochschnitt goblet by Friedrich Winter, Hermsdorf, circa 1700 image 3
A fine and rare Silesian engraved Hochschnitt goblet by Friedrich Winter, Hermsdorf, circa 1700 image 4
A fine and rare Silesian engraved Hochschnitt goblet by Friedrich Winter, Hermsdorf, circa 1700 image 5
A fine and rare Silesian engraved Hochschnitt goblet by Friedrich Winter, Hermsdorf, circa 1700 image 6
Lot 9*

A fine and rare Silesian engraved Hochschnitt goblet by Friedrich Winter, Hermsdorf, circa 1700

The Klaus Biemann Collection of Fine German Glass
26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£30,000 - £40,000

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A fine and rare Silesian engraved Hochschnitt goblet by Friedrich Winter, Hermsdorf, circa 1700

The waisted bell or thistle-shaped bowl finely decorated in Hochschnitt with three flowers, comprising a lily, a Martagon lily and a peony, surrounded by various insects including a large dragonfly, the rim cut with a band of polished circlets, the base of the bowl and inverted baluster stem cut in high relief with formal borders of stylised acanthus leaves and lenses, set on a conical foot decorated with a formal foliate border, 19.1cm high (small chip to footrim)

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Provenance:
Private collection, Vienna

A very similar goblet is illustrated by Brigitte Klesse, Glassammlung Helfried Krug, Vol. II (1973), pp. 172-173, cat. 563. 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. 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 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 with the previous lot in this sale, where very close similarities are evident in the execution of both the flowers and the insects.

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