A rare Silesian 'Hochschnitt' armorial goblet Friedrich Winter's Workshop, Hermsdorf, circa 1720

the thistle-shaped bowl cut in relief with six panels, one engraved with the coat-of-arms of the Von Los family of Silesia, inscribed Freund in der that above, within a shaped Baroque cartouche edged with scallops, the other three panels cut and engraved with a putto holding a large flower flanked by fruit and vases, the other two with strapwork and elaborate geometric scroll, the lower section cut with flutes over a faceted collar and wide conical foot cut with a band of ovals to the rim, the underside with facets

Schloss Ahlden, 5th-6th May 2001, no.249, p.82

several chips around the outside of rim
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For the von Los family coat-of-arms see Siebmachers Wappenbuch, Nürnberg, 1605, pl.69.

For a practically identical example without the armorials, see Rudolf von Strasser and Walter Spiegl, Dekoriertes Glas - Renaissance, Barock, Biedermeier and Robert Schmidt, Das Glas, 1922, p.294, pl.167 (left)