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A fine cameo glass portrait goblet by A Becker, signed and dated 1851

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

Sold for £27,500 inc. premium

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A fine cameo glass portrait goblet by A Becker, signed and dated 1851

The rounded bowl overlaid in sepia-brown and cut with arcaded flutes, the front oval panel cameo carved with a half length portrait of Louis Napoleon III, signed 'fec: Becker 1851', the bowl set on a ball knop in cut brown overlay on clear, above a colour-twist stem, the foot with a band of cameo carved with oak leaves and acorns, 28.3cm high

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For a Bohemian goblet of related form with a colour-twist stem and coloured overlay see the Catalogue, Glass in the Rijksmuseum (1993), Vol.I, p.320, fig. 449. Little is known about the engraved Becker who also signed A.Becker.

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