Topic: Engraved wine glass.

[chopin-liszt]

Well, when I looked up close, I was starting to get worried by the ghoulish expressions on the faces of the "vegetables" on the heap towards the bottom right.

I can't find the "parrot of doom" or a lid!

[flying free]

The parrot of doom is under the G peering over the lid of the coffin

ooh the ghoulish faces ... are they pumpkins? 

Are we casting nasturtiums on the skills of this poor engraver?
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[bat20]

I think your right m,it's only 12cm high and I think the engraving is very skilled especially in the real,the garlands are very detailed around the flowers,I wonder how long this would have taken.

[flying free]

what, the whole glass is only 12cm high?
how tall is the bowl bit then? - that's an awful lot of engraving on a 6cm high bowl 

but the disembodied arm is still a bit 

[bat20]

The bowl is about 7cm,I should add it's light with a small broken pontil,some bubbles in the glass and a small amount of lead in the metal,the foot rests on the very outer edge and for such a light gLass has good wear.

[Anne Tique]

'Unter diesen allen hat mir dieses gefallen' ? I guess it translates as 'out of all of them, I like this one the best...'

[bat20]

Thanks Anne,so I'm guessing it's a token of love.?a kind of chat up line or perhaps engagement glass,I'm not sure you'd get away with a line like that these days,"your my favorite girl"

[Anne Tique]

No, I don't think that would work today  but it's nice of you to say so!

[chopin-liszt]

I hadn't even found the coffin - I though it was a bridge.
I was thinking about this last night, I'm quite convinced the things are "Sacred hearts" and it looks as if the arm is adding one to a heap of them. It's a little bit mediaeval looking - Bosch-like sort of thing.
I had wondered if it was a memorial for some folk who had died in a plague... perhaps a whole family, but that the last one being added is the most missed, the eldest son or the most recent baby?

[Antwerp1954]

Your glass is very similar to one I bought from the much respected and knowledgeable Dr Fischer auction house in Germany. It was described as German 18th century. It's 13.3 cm tall. Less decorated than yours mine has a bird on one side and flowers with foliage on the other. Both have the same form with a  twisted knop and a red streak in the stem.