A J. & L. LOBMEYR LARGE CIRCULAR DISH engraved by Karl Pietsch with 'The Marriage of Neptune and Amphitrite', the centre with a running figure of Bacchus holding a goblet and flowing drapery beside a leaping panther, the well with bands of scroll, flute and key-pattern ornament, the border with Neptune and Amphitrite in a chariot, tritons blowing a horn and playing the lyre and with putti, youths and maidens riding hippocamppi rising from waves, the concave rim with a band of key-pattern beneath false gadroons, the well dated 1878 and 1881 flanking the initials 'CP' and with monogram mark, 1878-1881, in a contemporary velvet-lined fitted octagonal box (box damaged)

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A J. & L. LOBMEYR LARGE CIRCULAR DISH engraved by Karl Pietsch with 'The Marriage of Neptune and Amphitrite', the centre with a running figure of Bacchus holding a goblet and flowing drapery beside a leaping panther, the well with bands of scroll, flute and key-pattern ornament, the border with Neptune and Amphitrite in a chariot, tritons blowing a horn and playing the lyre and with putti, youths and maidens riding hippocamppi rising from waves, the concave rim with a band of key-pattern beneath false gadroons, the well dated 1878 and 1881 flanking the initials 'CP' and with monogram mark, 1878-1881, in a contemporary velvet-lined fitted octagonal box (box damaged)
42.5cm. diam. (2)

Lot Essay

The design for this dish, inspired by an antique frieze at that time exhibited in the Munich Glyptothek, was made by August Eisenmenger (1830-1907), the well-known Viennese painter, in close conjunction with Ludwig Lobmeyr, second generation owner of Lobmeyr. Karl Pietsch (1828-1883) of Kamenick Senov who executed the engraving on this dish was one of the foremost engravers of the period and whom Lobmeyr employed for very special commissions

We are grateful to Mr. Harald Rath of J. & L. Lobmeyr, Vienna, for the above information

For another dish engraved by Karl Pietsch between 1873-74 see Walter Spiegl, Glas des Historismus, p. 113, pl. 137 and for dish similarly initialled, in the Umeleckoprumyslové Museum , Prague see Exhibition Catalogue, 'Historismus Umelecké Remeslo 1860-1900', no. 116, also illustrated by Walter Spiegl, ibid, p. 114, pl. 128

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