English and European Ceramics and Glass - 18 Oct 2017
A tall glass flute 1st half 19th century
A tall glass flute 1st half 19th century, the slender drawn bowl engraved with a portrait of the Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher between the initials GB, 26.2cm.
Blücher rose to fame after leading his army against Napoleon I at the battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813, and then at the battle of Waterloo in 1815.