A VERY LARGE GERMAN-ENGRAVED CUT GLASS GOBLET AND COVER, (Deckelpokal) the generous funnel bowl decorated with a central roundel depicting two gentlemen shaking hands and inscribed Vivat tolerantia, surrounded with scrolling foliage, the back with a floral scroll, the lower part cut with arches, the huge multiknopped facetted stem screwed in one part, with spreading foot, the domed cover en suite with multiple facetted spire finial (upper part to finial missing)
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A VERY LARGE GERMAN-ENGRAVED CUT GLASS GOBLET AND COVER, (Deckelpokal) the generous funnel bowl decorated with a central roundel depicting two gentlemen shaking hands and inscribed Vivat tolerantia, surrounded with scrolling foliage, the back with a floral scroll, the lower part cut with arches, the huge multiknopped facetted stem screwed in one part, with spreading foot, the domed cover en suite with multiple facetted spire finial (upper part to finial missing)
18th Century
circa 53 cm high
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