AN UNRECORDED DIAMOND-ENGRAVED CALLIGRAPHIC DATED RECTANGULAR GLASS PANE, (glasruit) by Hendrik Scholting, (1700 - 1780) of clear tint, inscribed in Dutch in a very elaborate script: Door God ende Orange Stam is dat ons land In vreijheijd kwam Anno 1773 (Thanks to the Lord and the tribe of Orange, our country gained its freedom, Anno 1773), signed Hendrik Scholting to the lower right hand corner, 1773 (framed)

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AN UNRECORDED DIAMOND-ENGRAVED CALLIGRAPHIC DATED RECTANGULAR GLASS PANE, (glasruit) by Hendrik Scholting, (1700 - 1780) of clear tint, inscribed in Dutch in a very elaborate script: Door God ende Orange Stam is dat ons land In vreijheijd kwam Anno 1773 (Thanks to the Lord and the tribe of Orange, our country gained its freedom, Anno 1773), signed Hendrik Scholting to the lower right hand corner, 1773 (framed)
25.5 x 34 cm.

Lot Essay

cf. J.R. Liefkes, Catalogus van de glasverzameling, Museum Simon van Gijn, Dordrecht, p.43-50 for works by Hendrik Scholting and p.125 for the catalogue raisonné of the signed calligraphic glasspanes, comprising; two in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam dated 1761 and 1763 (one vanished after 1945), four in the Museum van Gijn, Dordrecht, variously dated, 1761, 1762, 1769 and 1774, one in the London trade dated 1769, all differently dated and inscribed to the above lot

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