Live Auction 1555European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries Part I
A NORTH BOHEMIAN CUT AND ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BEAKER (RANFTBECHER)
Lot 108

A NORTH BOHEMIAN CUT AND ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BEAKER (RANFTBECHER)

CIRCA 1830

Closed30 September 2014

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GBP 3,250

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A NORTH BOHEMIAN CUT AND ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BEAKER (RANFTBECHER)
CIRCA 1830
Decorated in the style of Dominik Biemann, the flared body with two raised oval medallions, one with a crowned ermine-clad coat-of-arms above the motto DEUS VIS ET PERSEVERENTIA flanked by a lion and a knight supporter, the other with a man leading a horse, within diamond-cut panels and on a gadrooned foot
5 1/8 in. (13 cm. high)

Specialist note

See the goblet engraved with a similar scene signed by Dominik Biemann and illustrated by Gustav E. Pazaurek and Eugen von Philippovich, Gläser, der Empire- und Biedermeierzeit, Braunschweig, 1976, p.107, pl. 100.