A rare cut glass liquor beaker

A rare cut glass liquor beaker

Round base supporting a faceted cup decorated with tendrils and a depiction of a cradle with the inscription "Wiegen wolt ich hertz lich gern: Wenn nur die Kinder meine wern." The rim slightly ground down, a 1mm sized chip. H 6.3 cm.
Hirschberger Tal (Kotlina Jeleniogórska), mid-18th C.

Provenance

From a Swedish collection.

Literature

Cf. a similar sized beaker in Klesse, Glassammlung Helfried Krug, Bonn 1973, cat. nos. 586 and 588.