Strauss & co - 5 March 2018, Cape Town

124 338 A deceptive toastmaster’s glass, 18th century the thick-walled conical bowl engraved ‘AU PREMIER PLAISIR’, set on a triple-teared inverted baluster stem and folded conical foot, 18cm high R –  339 An engraved glass goblet, possibly German, 18th/19th century the funnel bowl engraved with a castle, a rearing goat and a lion to the foreground, the reverse with putti playing musical instruments flanked by vines, a fruit tree, a rabbit and a fox, between lozenge-and-foliate borders, raised on a faceted stem, to a spreading circular foot, 18cm high R –  340 A near pair of Stiegel type engraved glass ale beakers, 19th century each rim engraved with wrigglework and stylised leaves, the lower half with fluting, the taller 15,6cm high (2) R –  341 An American Stiegel type engraved drinking beaker, 19th century engraved with a stylised foliate border above a fluted body, 10,4cm high R –  342 A Silesian-type engraved glass goblet and cover the bucket-shaped bowl engraved with three jesters and three hounds beneath flowering trees, to a knopped and baluster stem, set on a circular spreading foot, engraved with a berry-and-leaf garland, the domed cover moulded with trailing pincered work with conforming finial, 36,5cm high R –  338 339 340 341 342