Friedrich Winter held an honored position as "glass cutter and stone polisher" in the court of Count Christof Leopold Schaffgotsch, the ruler of a wealthy glassmaking region of Silesia on the frontier of Bohemia, near modern-day Poland. In 1688 the count established a workshop with water-powered glass-engraving tools; Winter directed, assisted by ten to twelve engravers. Winter's mastery of the ar
