A cut glass goblet with a courtly banquet scene

A cut glass goblet with a courtly banquet scene

Round base with a flowering tendril motif supporting a faceted baluster shaft with a ruby glass spiral inclusion and a faceted cup decorated with a scene of two figures and a pug dog dining on one side and Cupid and a lady in a rose arbour on the other. With a matching but associated lid. Restored crack between the cup and shaft, a rim chip and a chip to the finial of the lid. H with cover 27.5, without 19 cm.
Hirschberger Tal (Kotlina Jeleniogórska), around 1720 - 30.

Provenance

From a Swedish collection.

Literature

For this decor see Rückert, Die Glassammlung des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums München, vol. II, Munich 1982, fig. 771.

Cf. Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, vol. II, Amsterdam-Zwolle 1995, cat. no. 453.

Cf. Zelasko, 'Barock und Rokoko im Hirschberger Tal. Stein- und Glasschnitt 1650 - 1780, Passau 2014, cat. no. 159 ff.