Gottfried Spiller

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Figure 219: Beaker and cover, unpolished intaglio engraving with relief-cut laurel frieze by Gottfried Spiller, c. 1700. In the Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, West Germany. Height 27 cm.

Gottfried Spiller

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…of the German intaglio engravers, Gottfried Spiller, whose deep cutting on the thick Potsdam glass has seldom, if ever, been surpassed. A notable, if lesser, engraver from the same shop was Heinrich Jäger; and later, in the 1730s and 1740s, work of high quality was done by Elias Rosbach.
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…of the German intaglio engravers, Gottfried Spiller, whose deep cutting on the thick Potsdam glass has seldom, if ever, been surpassed. A notable, if lesser, engraver from the same shop was Heinrich Jäger; and later, in the 1730s and 1740s, work of high quality was done by Elias Rosbach.
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