A HESSIAN ENGRAVED AND ENAMELLED SMALL TUMBLER inscribed in gilt Alle schönen sollen leben on a blue ribbon cartouche and engraved with scrolling flowering foliage, the rim gilt, the lower part with fine flutes and the base with a star, circa 1785, 7cm. high; and a Bohemian amethyst scent-bottle and stopper of oblong octagonal form, gilt with two putti and fleurs-de-lys flanking vases of flowers between borders of stiff-leaf ornament (gilding slightly worn), third quarter of the 19th century, 11cm. high (2)

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A HESSIAN ENGRAVED AND ENAMELLED SMALL TUMBLER inscribed in gilt Alle schönen sollen leben on a blue ribbon cartouche and engraved with scrolling flowering foliage, the rim gilt, the lower part with fine flutes and the base with a star, circa 1785, 7cm. high; and a Bohemian amethyst scent-bottle and stopper of oblong octagonal form, gilt with two putti and fleurs-de-lys flanking vases of flowers between borders of stiff-leaf ornament (gilding slightly worn), third quarter of the 19th century, 11cm. high (2)

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For a similar tumber in the Kestner-Museums, Hannover, see Christel Mosel, Glas, Mittelalter-Biedermeier, no. 195

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