English and European Ceramics and Glass - 18th October 2017
Lot 1058
A tall glass flute 1st half 19th century
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £280
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Description
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.