A Bohemian Glass Passover Goblet, the glass 18th century, the engraving later

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

bidding is closed

Description

Glass
height 8 1/4 in.
21cm

the beaker-shaped bowl well engraved with a scene of the Passover Seder, compositely after the Amsterdam Haggadah, and inscribed on the reverse "In rememberance, from your son Jacob David, for the Passover Holidays 1674", the baluster stem enclosing a blue spiral, the spreading foot engraved with bands of flowers and foliage

Provenance

"Purchased at auction in 1923, then by descent"
Sotheby's, Tel Aviv, 25 October 2000, lot 30

Literature

Theodor Harburger, Die Inventarisation judischer Kunst-und Kulturdenkmaler in Bayern, Judisches Museum Franken – Furth & Schnaittach, The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem, Furth 1998, vol. 3, p. 541