Lot 773
  • 773

A BOHEMIAN BLUE OVERLAY CUT AND ENGRAVED BEAKER GOBLET AND COVER, CIRCA 1860 |

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • 24.7cm., 9 3/4 in. high
perhaps by Franz Paul Zach, Munich, of tapering form cased in cobalt blue, engraved with a putto as Bacchus seated within dense grapevine, on a spreading foot cut with facets, star cut base, the cover similarly cut,

Condition

In overall good appearance. Three small surface chips or areas of wear to the putti's right arm and leg. Minor typical surface scratching to the underside of foot, minor general wear consistent with age.
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Catalogue Note

The decoration can be compared to an overlay blue glass goblet included in the 1855 Paris Exposition Universelle engraved with bacchanal figures, signed 'F P Zach', now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, mus. no. 2672&A-1856, published by Paul von Lichtenberg, Glasgravuren des Biedermeier, Regensburg, 2004, p. 173, abb. 338. A further goblet by Zach with a similar reclining Bacchic figure eating grapes was sold in these rooms, Masterpieces of European Glass 1500-1900, A selection from the Hida Takayama Museum of Art, 19th December 2002, lot 20. For a beaker with similar grapevine engraving see Günter Irmscher, Glas, Glasmuseum Rheinbach, Cologne, 1988, pp. 154-5, no. 156.