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Lot Essay
The decoration is derived from Antonio Tempesta's engraving of a Boar Hunt. A beaker sold in these Rooms (as du Paquier) on 2nd November 1998, lot 273, was the same height as this beaker and of exactly the same form with a recessed footrim. The principal battle scene and the scrolling foliage and strapwork on the foot was extremely similar in feel to the present beaker; the only difference being the subject itself and the addition of martial trophies to echo the battle scene, rather than the hunting dogs which echo the principal hunting scene on the present lot. The similarity of the decoration and of the beakers themselves suggests that they were probably intended for the same recipient.
It is very probable that the decoration was executed by Ignaz Preissler (b. 1676), who was employed as a hausmaler by Count Franz Karl Liebsteinsky von Kolowrat from 1716-1753 in Reichenau Castle, Kronstadt, in Bohemia. See Rudolf von Strasser 'Twelve Preissler Glasses' Journal of Glass Studies, The Corning Museum of Glass (1973), Vol. XV, pp. 135-142, for a discussion of twelve (Schwarzlot) glasses which he argues represent the only tangible basis for attribution of Preissler's work (in the absence of any definite documentary pieces) for glasses with similarities in decoration to the present lot.
A glass bowl in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Prague, with hunting dogs, strapwork and scrolls which are also very similar to the foot on the present beaker, is illustrated by A. Müller-Hofstede, 'Der Schlesisch-Böhmisch Hausmaler Ignaz Preissler' Keramos no. 100 (1983), p. 11, figs 12 and 12a, where she attributes it to Preissler. For another discussion on Preissler, see Errol Manners, 'Dutch Fine Line and German Schwarlot Decoration' Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society (2000-2001), Vol. 65, pp. 135-142.
A tankard from the Hermannn Emden Collection decorated with the same Tempesta scene was sold by Lepke, Berlin, on 5th November 1908, lot 585.
It is very probable that the decoration was executed by Ignaz Preissler (b. 1676), who was employed as a hausmaler by Count Franz Karl Liebsteinsky von Kolowrat from 1716-1753 in Reichenau Castle, Kronstadt, in Bohemia. See Rudolf von Strasser 'Twelve Preissler Glasses' Journal of Glass Studies, The Corning Museum of Glass (1973), Vol. XV, pp. 135-142, for a discussion of twelve (Schwarzlot) glasses which he argues represent the only tangible basis for attribution of Preissler's work (in the absence of any definite documentary pieces) for glasses with similarities in decoration to the present lot.
A glass bowl in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Prague, with hunting dogs, strapwork and scrolls which are also very similar to the foot on the present beaker, is illustrated by A. Müller-Hofstede, 'Der Schlesisch-Böhmisch Hausmaler Ignaz Preissler' Keramos no. 100 (1983), p. 11, figs 12 and 12a, where she attributes it to Preissler. For another discussion on Preissler, see Errol Manners, 'Dutch Fine Line and German Schwarlot Decoration' Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society (2000-2001), Vol. 65, pp. 135-142.
A tankard from the Hermannn Emden Collection decorated with the same Tempesta scene was sold by Lepke, Berlin, on 5th November 1908, lot 585.