Lot Essay
For other goblets engraved by August Böhm with elaborate battle scenes see 'Czechoslovakian Glass 1350-1980', Exhibition Catalogue, 1981, Corning Museum of Glass, p. 70, no. 43 (unsigned); Walter Spiegl, Glas des Historismus, pp. 90-91, pls. 103 and 104 and ibid., pls. 105 and 106 for detailed illustrations of his engraving, Gustav E. Pazaurek/Eugen von Philippovich, op. cit., p. 56, pl. 39, and for the covered goblet in the Broadfield House Glass Museum, inspired by Lebrun's painting in the Louvre of Alexander defeating the Persians, see Charles R. Hajdamach, British Glass 1800-1914, p. 157, pls. 125 and 125A
The Battle of Lipan in 1434 brought peace to Bohemia after a period of turmoil and civil war, the Hussite Wars foreshaddowing the violent religious struggles of the Reformation. The Hussites, considered heretics by the majority of the Catholic population of Bohemia, were lead by John Ziska, whose military genius dominated the early years of these wars and who developed a new and effective defensive-offensive tactical system built around a wagenburg, or wagon fortress, equipped with artillery
The Battle of Lipan in 1434 brought peace to Bohemia after a period of turmoil and civil war, the Hussite Wars foreshaddowing the violent religious struggles of the Reformation. The Hussites, considered heretics by the majority of the Catholic population of Bohemia, were lead by John Ziska, whose military genius dominated the early years of these wars and who developed a new and effective defensive-offensive tactical system built around a wagenburg, or wagon fortress, equipped with artillery