A NORTH BOHEMIAN 'LEBENSALTER' CYLINDRICAL TUMBLER engraved with the 'Ages of Man', depicted as an arched bridge, each step supporting a pair of figures inscribed beneath respectively Kind in der Wiege - 5 Jahr ein kind - 10 Jahr ein Knab - 20 Jahr ein Jüngling - 30 Jahr ein Mann - 40 Jahr wohlgethan - 50 Jahr Stillstand - 60 Jahr gehts alter an - 70 Jah ein Greiss - 80 Jahr Schneeweiss - 90 Jahr der Kinderspott - 100 Gnad' buÿ Gott and with a view beneath the bridge showing to the left a horse and carriage conveying a family with a swaddled baby, inscribed beneath Zur Taufe, and to the right an open grave with a coffin born by pall-bearers approaching, inscribed beneath Zum Grabe, with a dot and line band below the rim and the footrim cut with flutes (chip to rim), circa 1820

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A NORTH BOHEMIAN 'LEBENSALTER' CYLINDRICAL TUMBLER engraved with the 'Ages of Man', depicted as an arched bridge, each step supporting a pair of figures inscribed beneath respectively Kind in der Wiege - 5 Jahr ein kind - 10 Jahr ein Knab - 20 Jahr ein Jüngling - 30 Jahr ein Mann - 40 Jahr wohlgethan - 50 Jahr Stillstand - 60 Jahr gehts alter an - 70 Jah ein Greiss - 80 Jahr Schneeweiss - 90 Jahr der Kinderspott - 100 Gnad' buÿ Gott and with a view beneath the bridge showing to the left a horse and carriage conveying a family with a swaddled baby, inscribed beneath Zur Taufe, and to the right an open grave with a coffin born by pall-bearers approaching, inscribed beneath Zum Grabe, with a dot and line band below the rim and the footrim cut with flutes (chip to rim), circa 1820
11.5cm. high

Lot Essay

The 'Ages of Man' appears to have been a popular subject, the format almost always the same. For other examples see The Krug Collection (Part III), sale Sotheby's, 15 November 1982, lot 477, J. Vavra, 5000 Years of Glassmaking, pl. 104, no. 264, G.E. Pazaurek, Gläser der Empire und-Biedermeierzeit, p. 46, fig. 23 and Walter Spiegl, Biedermeier Gläser, p. 73, fig. 70. For a slightly different version of this subject see Rudolf von Strasser/Walter Spiegl, op. cit., p. 375, no. 289

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