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During his lifetime, the artist was considered the best Czech, perhaps even European, engraver of precious stones. This tablet is one of the few large-format glass works that Drahoňovský produced in the 1930s. It is mounted in a metal frame set into a massive pedestal of rock crystal. A plaster cast of the tablet was exhibited at a retrospective exhibition of Josef Drahoňovský's oeuvre, held by the Myslbek association in early 1939. Seznam Děl Výstavy Životního Díla Profesora Josefa Drahoňovského - Sochaře a Glyptika Českého, 1939, p. 19, no. 110. Signed on bottom left "J. Drahoňovský". Glass dimensions: 24 x 17.5 cm.