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A magnificent Bohemian engraved goblet and cover by Karl Pietsch, Steinschönau, circa 1870-80 image 1
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Lot 134*

A magnificent Bohemian engraved goblet and cover by Karl Pietsch, Steinschönau, circa 1870-80

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A magnificent Bohemian engraved goblet and cover by Karl Pietsch, Steinschönau, circa 1870-80

With Tiefschnitt decoration, the chalice-like bowl engraved with children and woodland animals, including a child startled by a running deer and another child smoking a pipe while his companion carves a joint of meat, a rabbit concealed amongst the undergrowth, signed C Pietsch, the separate stem mounted with thin silver collars, designed so that the bowl can revolve, the foot and cover cut with flutes and engraved with oak leaf borders, 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 trained at the Pelikan workshop. From his own 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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