Pereat Goblet owned by Crown Prince Ludwig

Julius Elchinger (zugeschrieben)

Probably Warmbrunn, Silesia, Before 1809

Crystal glass, shallow-cut flutes, silver, parcel-gilt

13,5 x 7,0 cm

Inv.-Nr. G 1047.1

Given by Bettina von Ringseis in 1898

Gallery 51

This silver-mounted goblet originally belonged to Crown Prince Ludwig, who later became King Ludwig I of Bavaria. He gave it to Bettina Brentano. As the shield on the bowl and the engraved inscription on the mount inform us, the Crown Prince gave such a passionate toast against Napoleon, crying 'Down with him!' ('Pereat' ['May he perish!']), at a meeting with the Austrian envoy Count Stadion-Warthausen in Munich, in 1809 that he damaged the foot of the goblet.

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