A 'beer boot' with dedications and monkey design
colourless glass, boot with heel and spur, the body with various cut decor, with elaborate large leafy- and blossoming boughs, the facing side with rosette and bearing the dedication "Pereat tristitia, Pereant osores", the reverse side inscribed: "Der Trunk ist ein Laster, die Nüchternheit aber ein Scheusal" (Drink is a vice, but sobriety is a monster), with a polychrome painted monkey swinging from a bar, height: 24 cm, length: 15,5 cm; Bohemia, 2nd half 19th cent. (Ru)
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colourless glass, boot with heel and spur, the body with various cut decor, with elaborate large leafy- and blossoming boughs, the facing side with rosette and bearing the dedication "Pereat tristitia, Pereant osores", the reverse side inscribed: "Der Trunk ist ein Laster, die Nüchternheit aber ein Scheusal" (Drink is a vice, but sobriety is a monster), with a polychrome painted monkey swinging from a bar, height: 24 cm, length: 15,5 cm; Bohemia, 2nd half 19th cent. (Ru)