Glass was the strong suit in Sotheby’s June 20 sale of ceramics

UK: LEADING the auction at £100,000 (plus premium) was this 27in (68.5cm) high early 18th century, two-section Saxon covered goblet from Dresden which is applied with 12 silver-gilt oval medallions of Roman emperors and was discovered in a cellar at Schloss Hinnenburg, in northern Germany.

It is thought to have been made for Augustus the Strong, then passed to Hermann Werner Franz Gottlob…

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