A Bohemian amber-stained goblet and crown cover, circa 1840-50The barrel-shaped bowl cut with eight broad panels, engraved with a continuous tree-lined landscape scene depicting two figures of sportsmen with their dogs, one holding his horse by the reins, the other about to take aim at a flock of game birds with his shotgun, a group of three deer including two stags to the reverse, raised on a stepped octagonal base and spreading foot deeply scalloped at the rim and with a fancy star-cut underside, the cover unusually formed as a coronet or crown with an orb finial, each panel engraved with a landscape vignette depicting a single stag or hound, 41cm high (2)Footnotes:According to Michael Kovacek, Glass of Five Centuries (1990), p.188, crown-shaped covers were a speciality of the Harrachov glassworks. An almost identical goblet and cover, engraved with a different hunting scene, was sold by Bonhams on 11 December 2013, lot 35.

There is a chip to one corner of the rim approximately 6mm wide with an associated bruise or short internal fracture approximately 1.7cm long; this is just visible at the rim on the far right of the catalogue illustration. There are two further small chips to the outer rim edge measuring approximately 5mm and 2mm in width respectively. There is a tiny fleabite chip to one corner of the stepped octagonal base, of little significance. There is a small chip to the upper edge of one of the petals of the foot approximately 4mm wide, and a very shallow sliced chip to the inside edge of another petal approximately 4mm x 7mm in size. Otherwise in good condition. The cover is in good condition save for two very small chips to the inner edge of the flange of little significance, one less than 2mm in size and the other a thin shallow sliver ship approximately 5mm long.
The number '385I' has been inscribed faintly in very fine diamond-point to the top of one of the petals of the foot and again on one side of the finial of the cover.