Lot 32: A Silesian engraved goblet by Christian Gottfried Schneider or his workshop, Warmbrunn, circa 1750 The Klaus Biemann Collection of Fine German Glass

The flattened ogee bowl gadrooned at the base, decorated on both sides with two large palmettes in relief which are finely engraved with stylised grotesques, flowers, buildings and figures walking amongst trees, flanked on one side by an elegant couple and their dog greeting each other in a formal garden and on the other by a couple walking by a fountain with their dogs, set on a faceted inverted baluster stem between collars, over a conical foot with stiff-leaf border and faceted rim, 16.8cm high

16.8cm high

: Sold at Fischer, Heilbronn, 16 March 2002, lot 203

A goblet with similarly engraved palmettes in high relief was formerly in the Ernesto Wolf Collection illustrated by Brigitte Klesse and Hans Mayr, European Glass from 1500-1800 (1987), cat. 117, and by Brigitte Klesse and Axel Von Saldern, 500 Jahre Glaskunst (1978), p. 181, cat. 119. See also the footed beakers illustrated by Klesse and Mayr (1987), cat. 119 and by Jaroslav Vavra, Das Glas und die Jahrtausende (1954), pl. 78, cat. 192.