AN ENGRAVED NUREMBERG GOBLET
REF: FA1621
A wonderful Nuremberg goblet, having a large round funnel bowl engraved in the manner of Johann Wolfgang Schmidt, a woodland hunting scene with a stag and doe along with a hare and a fox being chased by three hounds and two hunters, one on horseback. This all within a continuous landscape containing a variety of different trees, stylised birds in the sky above, a formal stiff-leaf border below. The bowl sits upon a stem with hollow blown knops separated by multiple mereses, all on a large conical foot engraved with a leaf garland.
- Height 30 cm / 12"
- Diameter 13.5 cm / 5 "
- Period 1700-1749
- Year 1725
- Country Netherlands
- Provenance Chris Crabtree Collection
- Literature A glass of very similar form attributed to Johann Wolfgang Schmidt is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Die Glassammlung des Bayersischen Nationalmuseums München, Vol.2 (1982), no.488 where the author states that the form deviates from that typical of Nuremburg and suggests a possible Upper Franconian or Spessart origin. A goblet decorated with a similar hunting scene, also by Schmidt, is illustrated at no.489.
