An important Saxon glass goblet commemorating King Augustus III - image-1
An important Saxon glass goblet commemorating King Augustus III - image-2
An important Saxon glass goblet commemorating King Augustus III - image-1An important Saxon glass goblet commemorating King Augustus III - image-2

Lot 740 Dα

An important Saxon glass goblet commemorating King Augustus III

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 3.750 € (incl. premium)

An important Saxon glass goblet commemorating King Augustus III

Round base decorated with palm fronds supporting a baluster shaft with pommel and tapering cup. The crowned oval cartouche applied with a paste portrait of the king facing right. Inscribed on the reverse "Vive le Roy Auguste III". With a matching associated lid. H 20, H with lid 28.5 cm.
Attributed to Dresden or Glücksburg, mid-18th C.

Gisela Haase has proposed that the paste portrait is based on a work by Johann Christoph Ludwig Lücke (1703 - 1780). The Grünes Gewölbe in Dresden houses a carved ivory miniature by the artist (inv. no. 173/34-1763) depicting the king in the same pose with a cloth draped over his breastplate and facing right, which is dated to around 1745 - 47. Friedrich Augustus II (1696 - 1763) became King of Saxony and Poland and Grand Prince of Lithuania following the death of his father on 1st February 1733.

Provenance

Collection of Helfried Krug.

Literature

Illus. in: Klesse, Glassammlung Helfried Krug, Munich 1965, no. 286.
A further cup with paste relief in the Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie published in: Haase, Sächsisches Glas, Munich-Leipzig 1988, no. 115.
Cf. also Baumgärtner, Porträtgläser, Munich 1981, no. 29.