2 Antique Cups Smetana THE BARTERED BRIDE Opera Father Lover Czechoslovakia

Description

2 Similar hard-to-find antique Czech cups, each  showing a scene from Smetana's comic opera
THE BARTERED BRIDE. (see below).
Late 19th, early 20th c.
Excellent gift for the opera lover.
-Slightly taller one, quite shiny luster/lustre ware with excellent gilt, shows the two lovers  embracing.  Legend in Czech says something like
Bartered [sold] bride, faithful to our loved ones!
This one is
marked clearly
Czecho Slovakia
.  Height 3.75 inches, capacity 10 oz.  Beautiful condition.
--Second cup shows village scene with the couple and the bride's formerly-disapproving father.
The legend  translates to the father's speech:
So be it then, so be it. I'll give you my blessing
.
Capacity  9-10 ounces.   Height  3.5 inches.  This one shows some gilt loss and is not marked on reverse.
Image is very nicely rendered however, and shows gilt dots.
Cups
will be carefully packaged and sent Priority.
NOTE: The work was first performed in Prague in 1866, but premiered in its present form in 1870.  At this time, the Czech lands were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  Czechoslovakia did not exist until 1919.
TW00061 + TW00020