94. Superbe gobelet à pied gravé à la manière de Gottfried Spiller, Potsdam, vers 1720-30 An exceptional Potsdam engraved goblet in the manner of Gottfried Spiller, circa 1720-30 The generous round funnel bowl decorated with a continuous landscape depicting a Bacchanalian procession, Bacchus crowned with fruiting vines and holding a thyrsus, seated beside his female companion, perhaps Venus, both in an elaborate shell-shaped chariot pulled by two large cat-like creatures and pushed by a Bacchante, a putto astride one of the cats, a satyr carrying a nymph in his arms between them, all before two musicians playing a drum and cymbals respectively, a large gnarled tree ahead of them, the rim with a distinctive ashlar border of rectangular hobnails, on an elaborate beaded inverted baluster stem cut with flutes, between shoulder and basal knops, the base of the bowl and the conical foot deeply cut with overlapping petal-like facets, 27.2cm high Provenance With Uwe Friedleben Kunsthandel, 1 November 1984 Christian von Reitzenstein Collection The Triumphal Procession of Bacchus was an extremely popular subject in Baroque art, including on glass. With its particularly fine and lively cutting, this goblet can probably be attributed to the workshop of Gottfried Spiller, which was active in Berlin until 1728. A goblet of very similar form engraved with a Bacchanalian procession is illustrated by Robert Schmidt, Brandenburgische Gläser, 1914, table 30, no.1. A goblet of slightly different form engraved with a Bacchanalian procession in a remarkably similar style, also attributed to the circle of Gottfried Spiller, is in the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin (inv. no.SM 2013-7642). A Zechlin armorial goblet of identical shape with borders cut in an identical way is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Die Glasammlung des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums München, Vol.2, 1982, pp.280-1, pl.XXVII, no.821.