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Lot 366
  • 366

A cut-glass goblet and cover of documentary interest relating to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bohemia, dated 1825

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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Description

  • 25.5 and 27 cm.
the vase-shaped bowl supported on wasted foot, engraved Den siebenten November 1825; together with a large glass goblet, German, 19th century, the tall sides wheel-engraved with a hound in pursuit of a stag while another stag grazes in the distance

Provenance

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
His Manservant, Gottlieb Friedrich Krause (1805-1860)
Sold at auction by Friedrich Meyer, Leipzig, 1927

Catalogue Note

The Bohemian ceremonial drinking glass was engraved with a date that was celebrated by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his friends as his Goldener Jubeltag, his 50-year anniversary in the service at Weimar. Grand duke Karl August, his patron arranged for a sumptuous edition of Iphigenie to commemorate this day, and the Natural Historian Caspar Maria Graf von Sternberg presented Goethe with this very drinking glass, from which the Laureate drank on this festive occasion.

Accompanying this lot is a copy of a newspaper article, written by a Dr. J. B. Kittel after the auction in Leipzig had taken place. Two items of 'Goetheana' had been included, both having come from the estate of Goethe's manservant Krause. The first was the glass cup and cover offered herewith, the second a manuscript 'wine-book', in which the servant had duly noted the daily consumption in the household.