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Journal Article
Mit Musen, Monogramm und Motto
2016
Overview
A colorless Silesian footed beaker with wheel-cut and engraved decoration is described and analyzed in this article. The conical bowl is decorated on one side with a mythological scene featuring the nine Muses (all equipped with different musical instruments and dressed in costumes taken from opera seria), Apollo, Pegasus at the foot of Mt. Helicon, and aSpiegelmonogramm(mirror monogram) in a broad landscape. This scene appears above the Latin inscription “Et Mihi Pegasides doctissima Carmina dictant” (And I like the Muses to compose the most learned songs) and the date “1740.” The reverse shows an empty palmette, and the base of the bowl is faceted.
The author suggests that the Latin motto allows us to conclude that the owner was a highly educated composer of opera seria or director of a musical ensemble in the year 1740. The initials in the elaborately constructed mirror monogram are “CHG.” On this basis, the author concludes that the beaker was made for Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759), the firstHofkapellmeisterat the court of Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, in Potsdam. Graun, who was considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera in his day, probably received the beaker as a gift from the court.
