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Large lidded cup in honour of the Fulda Abbot Adolf von Dalberg

Lost Art-ID
628772
Artist / Creator
Rohling: Potsdamer Glashütte; Veredelung vermutl. Berlin oder Kassel
Title
Large lidded cup in honour of the Fulda Abbot Adolf von Dalberg
Object type
Vessel
Group of reported objects
Crafts and other folk arts
Material / Technique
Glass / blown ; shaped ; cut ; cut
Measures
Mouth diameter: 18.8 cm; base diameter: 20.8 cm
Height
59.80 cm
Inventory number
80-64-GL / alte Inv.-Nr. IV 3b/53/455; III a2/1
Description
Goblet made of colourless crystal glass with matching lid. The foot rim with a plain flat arched cut, slightly domed foot with pointed leaf frieze, bordered by a beaded border, hollow baluster stem decorated with further leaf wreaths and two knots between cut ring discs. Pointed leaf frieze at the base of the bowl beneath faceted round arches. On the wall the fifteen deep-cut coats of arms of the Fulda canons under Prince-Abbot Dalberg of Fulda set in cartouches with crests in two rows (eight at the top, seven at the bottom), pearl and diamond border on the lip and rim of the lid. Pointed leaf frieze on the high domed lid, pommel designed to correspond with the shaft.
Provenance
The oldest known museum inventory of provenance is an entry on an index card from 1946 to around 1951: Acquisition: purchase, provenance: Art trade. On 23 April 2025, the Potsdam Museum received a reference to the auction catalogue ‘Hans W. Lange (Berlin): Various German art possessions: paintings by old and new masters (mostly from the Budge Collection, Hamburg), sculpture, bronzes, furniture, tapestries, textiles, silver, porcelain, majolica, faience; auction on 6 and 7 December 1937.’ The goblet is listed there under lot 351 (with plate illus.), the abbreviation of the previous owner is given as (41) = La., Berlin. It is suspected to be a Nazi-confiscated cultural artefact.
Literature / Source
Dethlefs, Gerd: Fuldaer Wappenpokale, in: Der Glasfreund. Zeitschrift für altes und neues Glas, 22. Jg., Nr. 69, November 2018, S. 30–39; Dethlefs, Gerd: Wappenpokale der Fürstäbte von Fulda, in: Der Glasfreund. Zeitschrift für altes und neues Glas, Jg. 22, H. 65, 2017, S. 18–30; Gläserne Welten. Potsdamer Glasmacher schneiden Geschichte. Katalog zur Ausstellung des Potsdam Museums – Forum für Kunst und Geschichte, 27. August–19. November 2017, hg. Landeshauptstadt Potsdam, Der Oberbürgermeister / Jutta Götzmann und Uta Kaiser, Kat. 61; Abb. 42, S. 61, Abb. 46a–f, Abb. 49 (Detail), Abb. 51 (Detail); Dethlefs, Gerd: Ein Pokal aus Potsdam für Abt Karl von Corvey, in: Der Glasfreund. Zeitschrift für altes und neues Glas, Jg. 22, H. 62, 2017, S. 8–11; Büloff, Tobias: Ein Potsdamer Pokal für den Fuldaer Fürstabt Adolph von Dalberg, in: Museumsfenster. Schriftenreihe des Potsdam Museums, Berlin 2016 Band 1; S. 25; Abb. 2 (Detail); S.23; Abb.1; Königliche Visionen. Potsdam. Eine Stadt in der Mitte Europas. Katalog zur Ausstellung des Potsdam-Museums in Kooperation mit dem Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte, 30. August 2003–28. März 2004, hg. vom Potsdam-Museum, Potsdam 2003, Kat. 1.3.8.
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