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A Brandenburg engraved goblet Potsdam, circa 1725
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description
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- 18.2cm., 7 1/8 in.
the large funnel bowl decorated with a continuous scene of farmers working in the fields and a lady seated beside a tree, the rim inscribed Die Wollfahrt des Vatterlandes., below a band of circlets, the base cut with stiff leaves, over a collar above an inverted baluster stem and wide conical foot
Provenance
Helmuth Meißner, Dresden (from whom seized by the East German Secret Service for export in 1982; withdrawn from export for the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (East) at Schloss Köpenick)
Restituted from the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin to the heirs of Helmuth Meißner in 2007