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Lot 20

A Bohemian 'Annagrun' cut glass goblet and cover and a pair of beakers, circa 1840-60

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,402.50 inc. premium

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A Bohemian 'Annagrun' cut glass goblet and cover and a pair of beakers, circa 1840-60

Of campana shape with octagonal hobnail-cut diaper panels around the base, on a hexagonal baluster stem and deeply scalloped foot carved with fan-shaped panels of fine diaper underneath, the pagoda cover with a deeply cut petal-shaped rim and heavy hexagonal finial, 43.5cm high, the Ranftbechern of typical flared form cut with ten flutes, 11.5cm high (4)

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Provenance
With Mallet Antiques, London

Josef Riedl purportedly named this so-called Uranium glass after his wife Anna, calling it Annagrun and Annagelb. Similar colours were subsequently made by other glassworks and safer substitutes were developed to replace uranium oxide.

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