A SAXON ARMORIAL GOBLET, the funnel bowl with facet-cut lower part engraved in the manner of Johann Georg Müller with three interlaced C's (for Herzog Christian von Sachsen Weißenfels 1712-1736) within a circular cartouche suspending the Badge of the Order of the Elephant and flanked by a berried branch and palm-frond and surmounted by a crown, the reverse with an elaborate coat-of-arms, supported on an hexagonally cut knop above a tapering hexagonal stem, the conical foot engraved with a band of flowers and foliage and with folded rim (the foot a replacement), circa 1730

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A SAXON ARMORIAL GOBLET, the funnel bowl with facet-cut lower part engraved in the manner of Johann Georg Müller with three interlaced C's (for Herzog Christian von Sachsen Weißenfels 1712-1736) within a circular cartouche suspending the Badge of the Order of the Elephant and flanked by a berried branch and palm-frond and surmounted by a crown, the reverse with an elaborate coat-of-arms, supported on an hexagonally cut knop above a tapering hexagonal stem, the conical foot engraved with a band of flowers and foliage and with folded rim (the foot a replacement), circa 1730
22.5cm. high

Lot Essay

For other goblets with the crowned triple 'C' emblem and attributed to Johann Georg Müller see Christel Mosel, Sammlungskataloge des Kestner-Museums Hannover, p. 100, no. 125 and Gisela Haase, Glas aus dem Museum Für Kunsthandwerk Schloss Pillnitz, no. 36

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