1670-1680, THE ENGRAVING ATTRIBUTED TO HERMANN SCHWINGER

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A Nuremberg-engraved façon de Venise goblet
1670-1680, the engraving attributed to Hermann Schwinger
(Pokal) the generous bowl engraved in Mattschnitt and Tiefschnitt with a continuous idyllic landscape depicting a fox with a paddle on board of an elongated sloop with five chicken under the humourous inscription Trau Schau Wem (trust, look who), the reverse with antique ruins surrounded by lush vegetation, upon a band of dentils, with hollow multi-knopped baluster stem enclosing various mereses, the large conical foot folded
23.6cm. high
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Lot Essay

Cf. G. Weiss, Ullstein Gläserbuch (Berlin 1966), p.184
Fifteen signed goblets, some dated, by Schwinger are in existence many of them with a predilection for idyllic landscapes with ruins or small staffage figures. op.cit.

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