A large, important glass goblet with the coat of arms of King Friedrich Wilhelm I
With glass disease. The round base replaced with a Chinese style wooden plinth. The shaft solid in the lower section and hollow above with three cut glass pommels, the cup rising above a cut laurel wreath. The display side decorated with depictions of three "wild men" supporting a shield with the coat of arms and the collar of the Order of the Black Eagle. The reverse with a round medallion bearing the motto NEC SOLI CEDIT, an eagle, and a sun. H 32.2 cm.
Potsdam glassworks, after 1713.
Susanne Netzer dates the production of fine cut glass in Brandenburg to after 1678. Most glass decorators were active in Potsdam and Berlin. Their products had to be presented to the Prince Elector after production and only the pieces which he did not request for his own use were allowed to be sold. The first shop in Berlin to sell Potsdam glass was located on Friedrichswerder in the storerooms of the old Berlin packing warehouse. There was also a shop on Mühlendamm in Breite Strasse. Apart from these two locations, products from the Potsdam glass blowing workshop could only be purchased at the trade fairs in Leipzig and Frankfurt an der Oder.
Literature
A goblet with the same coat of arms in: Rückert, Die Glassammlung des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums München, vol. II, Munich 1982, no. 812.
Cf. Keisch/Netzer, "Herrliche Künste und Manufacturen", Berlin 2001, no. 180, cf. also ibid. no. 191.
Cf. Netzer, Was großes Aufsehn macht - Brandenburgische Gläser im Rahmen höfischer Rerpäsentation, in: Herrliche Künste und Manufacturen, Berlin 2001, p. 58 ff.