A stipple-engraved light-baluster goblet

CIRCA 1760-80

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A stipple-engraved light-baluster goblet
Circa 1760-80
The round-funnel bowl stipple-engraved in the manner of 'Alius' with a betrothed couple standing, their right hands clasped over an altar supporting two flaming hearts, on a grassy sward flanked by trees and with the radiant All-seeing Eye of God above, supported on an airtwist and beaded knopped section above an inverted baluster stem enclosing a tear and terminating in a basal knop, on a conical foot
8 in. (21.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a detailed discussion on David Wolff and his contemporaries see Christopher R.S. Sheppard and John P. Smith, Engraved Glass Masterpieces from Holland(1990), p. 66. For other examples engraved by the same hand with an almost identical subject see Rainer Rckert, Die Glassammlung des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums Mnich(1982), Vol. I, p. 29, no. 119, Robert Schmidt, Die Glaser der Sammlung Msham,(1914), pl. 7, no. 46 for the example now in the Art Institute, Chicago and Sheppard and Smith, op. cit.(1990), p. 68, no. 33.

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