Bonhams. BRITISH AND EUROPEAN CERAMICS AND GLASS, LONDON, KNIGHTSBRIDGE
29 octobre 2016
A fine Potsdam royal portrait goblet and cover, circa 1735
Lot 50. A fine Potsdam royal portrait goblet and cover, circa 1735. Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 (€3,300 - 5,600). Photo Bonhams.
Of drawn trumpet shape, deeply cut and engraved and brightly gilded, the bowl with a profile portrait of Frederick William I of Prussia, in a circular reserve surmounted by a crowned eagle within a frame of martial trophies including further Prussian eagles, the cover engraved with further trophies including a barrel, the reverse of the cover with a pile of cannonballs, the stem, the cover and the finial all cut with a scale pattern and also very brightly gilded, 32.5cm high (2)
Provenance: From the estate of a Swiss collector.
Note: For a very similar goblet in the Strasser Collection see Rudolf von Strasser and Walter Spiegl, Dekoriertes Glas (1989), p.280, fig.146. Another related example is in the Ernesto Wolf Collection, catalogue no.134.
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