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An important Bohemian engraved goblet and cover by Karl Pietsch, Steinschönau, circa 1870-80 image 1
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Lot 138*

An important Bohemian engraved goblet and cover by Karl Pietsch, Steinschönau, circa 1870-80

30 September 2015, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £4,000

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An important Bohemian engraved goblet and cover by Karl Pietsch, Steinschönau, circa 1870-80

In colourless glass with Tiefschnitt decoration, the chalice-like bowl engraved with a continuous scene of children and woodland animals, the five young figures in medieval dress, one child startled by a running deer, two others watching with excitement, another child smoking a pipe while his companion carves a joint of meat, a rabbit and its young concealed amongst the undergrowth beside a tree trunk, signed C Pietsch, the separate stem mounted with thin silver collars, designed so that the bowl can revolve, the spreading foot and the spire cover variously cut with flutes and engraved with borders of oak leaves and acorns, 64.5cm high (2)

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Karl Pietsch (1828-1883) continued the Bohemian traditions of fine glass engraving, initially in Meistersdorf and subsequently in Steinschönau where he was trained by Franz Zahn and at the Pelikan workshop. From his own glass-engraving workshop in Steinschönau, Pietsch supplied the Vienna retailers J & L Lobmeyr with specially-commissioned pieces of exhibition-quality engraving, including presentation works designed by August Eisenmenger. A fine covered goblet with related children figures engraved by Karl Pietsch was exhibited at Glasgallery Michael Kovacek, Glass of Four Centuries (1985), pp. 322-323, cat. 206.

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