A Potsdam Glassworks cut glass goblet dedicated to Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and cover
A Potsdam Glassworks cut glass goblet dedicated to Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and cover
Round base with foliage supporting a thick shaft with three nodes and a tapering cup decorated with a vacant oval medallion surrounded by the collar of the Order of the Black Eagle and flanked by two "wild men" holding a banner monogrammed FWCP. The reverse bearing a crowned cartouche with trophies surrounding a laurel wreath and the Prussian eagle. With glass disease and rim chips. The lid matching but associated. H with cover 45.1, without 28.3 cm.
1701 - 1713.
The vacant reserve was intended to bear a glass paste portrait medallion of the king.
Literature
Cf. Keisch/Netzer, "Herrliche Künste und Manufacturen" Fayence, Glas und Tapisserien aus der Frühzeit Brandenburgs-Preußens 1680 - 1720, Berlin 2001, cat. no. 179.
Cf. cat. Kronschatz und Silberkammer der Hohenzollern, Berlin-Munich 2010, fig. 91.
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A Potsdam Glassworks cut glass goblet dedicated to Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and cover
Round base with foliage supporting a thick shaft with three nodes and a tapering cup decorated with a vacant oval medallion surrounded by the collar of the Order of the Black Eagle and flanked by two "wild men" holding a banner monogrammed FWCP. The reverse bearing a crowned cartouche with trophies surrounding a laurel wreath and the Prussian eagle. With glass disease and rim chips. The lid matching but associated. H with cover 45.1, without 28.3 cm.
1701 - 1713.
The vacant reserve was intended to bear a glass paste portrait medallion of the king.
Literature
Cf. Keisch/Netzer, "Herrliche Künste und Manufacturen" Fayence, Glas und Tapisserien aus der Frühzeit Brandenburgs-Preußens 1680 - 1720, Berlin 2001, cat. no. 179.
Cf. cat. Kronschatz und Silberkammer der Hohenzollern, Berlin-Munich 2010, fig. 91.
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