Eiland:: Georg!Gundelach and the glassworks on the Decin estate of Count Maximilian Thun-Hohenstein

This article discusses a group of luxury vessels made of glass that is now crizzled. These objects are hot-worked and decorated with engraved motifs of coats of arms and monograms that allow us to date them to about 1675 and after 1688. We believe that these vessels were produced at the Eiland glassworks on the Decin estate of Count Maximilian Thun-Ho-henstein, which was founded by the famous Hessian glassmaker Georg Gundelach in 1675. Goblets that are decorated with the coats of arms of Count Lodron and Matthias von Plonstein may have been among the items listed as "Stelzen GlaBern" in the Eiland accounts after 1675. They may have been made when the glassworks was directed by Gundelach. They can be considered an important link between the furnace production of glass in Venetian style and the original central European production of crystal decorated with cutting and high-quality wheel engraving, which was predominant in the 18th century.