A set of 20 German enamelled armorial glasses, Schaffgotsch'sche Josephinenhütte, the heraldic enamel painting by the Gebrüder Goedecke, Hanover, circa 1895

each with a crest within a laurel wreath tied with ribbons above the date 1895 in white enamel, flanked by the name of the University or College

Bismarck Museum Schönhausen, Inv. nr. GV Schön 29.

One glass has a chip to the footrim, approx. 2cm. by 1cm. Otherwise in good condition with very minor wear to the enamels.
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From a set of originally 30 glasses, each finely painted with the coat-of-arms of the various universities and technical academies of the German empire. The set of glasses were part of a monumental carved wooden, marble, bronze, silver, enamelled and painted credence table with a beer pump mechanism, topped by a onyx obelisk with eagle, with a portrait of Bismarck and further decorated with sculptures and enamelled armorial shields, in total 375cm. high (fig.1). This important monument was specially commissioned by the body of students of Imperial Germany to honour Bismarck on occasion of his 80^th birthday in 1895.