Rare & Superb August Böhm Jr, circa 1870 Bohemian Engraved D...

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£500

Rare & Superb August Böhm Jr, circa 1870 Bohemian Engraved Decanter With Stopper. Fabulous Piece Depicting Arab Horse and Rider, With Fruiting Vine Borders. Reserved Panel Signed A Bohm. No Damages To Note.

Footnotes: August Böhm Jr (1848-1910) was taught by his father of the same name. August Böhm Sr (1812-1890) was one of the finest glass engravers of the 19th century. The younger August Böhm settled in England and worked in Stourbridge. It is likely that a series of these distinctive bottle-shaped decanters engraved in the Bohemian style and signed A Böhm are British productions by the younger engraver. Another bottle shaped decanter signed A Böhm, with an identical subject to the present lot, was exhibited by Michael Kovacek, Glass of 5 Centuries, p. 220 (as the work of Bohm Sr). This is illustrated and discussed by Paul von Lichtenberg, Glasgravuren des Biedermeier (2004), p.206, fig. 127 where it is re-attributed to the younger August Böhm. Böhm Jr was clearly a very talented engraver like his father. A blue decanter of the same shape engraved with Flora and Zephyrus is in the Glasmuseum Rheinbach, cat. no.157. August Böhm Jr's own son, Henry also worked as a glass engraver and cameo artist and changed his name to H J Boam