A COMMEMORATIVE ARMORIAL PUNCHBOWL
CIRCA 1920
Enamelled in colors front and back with a large Hapsburg coat-of-arms inscribed BURC CO TYR 1820 X ARCHID AUST DUX, pheasant and peony vignettes in colors on each side on a field of iron-red and gilt flowers, repeated in the interior, below black-ground gilt vine borders inside and out
16 in. (40.6 cm.) diameter
Lot Essay
Presumably made for the hundredth anniversary of an historic event relating to the house of Hapsburg, whose rulers were also Princely Counts of Tyrol in the 19th century.