AN ENGRAVED COMPOSITE-STEMMED LIGHT BALUSTER GOBLET by Jacob Sang, the slightly waisted funnel bowl with a three-masted ship in full sail with pennants flying, the reverse with a farmer, horse and plough, on a continuous grasswork and wave band, inscribed above T' LANDS WELVAAREN (The prosperity of the country), supported on a swelling waist-knopped section filled with spiral air threads above a beaded inverted baluster stem and basal knop, on a conical foot, circa 1760

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AN ENGRAVED COMPOSITE-STEMMED LIGHT BALUSTER GOBLET by Jacob Sang, the slightly waisted funnel bowl with a three-masted ship in full sail with pennants flying, the reverse with a farmer, horse and plough, on a continuous grasswork and wave band, inscribed above T' LANDS WELVAAREN (The prosperity of the country), supported on a swelling waist-knopped section filled with spiral air threads above a beaded inverted baluster stem and basal knop, on a conical foot, circa 1760
19.5cm. high

Provenance

The Earl of Bradford Collection , sale Christie's, 4 June 1985, lot 56

Lot Essay

At the time this appears to have been a popular design and inscription. Jacob Sang signed a glass with this motto in 1760 (see H.E. van Gelder, 'Achttiende-eeuwse glas-snijders in Holland', Oud Holland, 73, 1958, 16, no. 21) and a similar glass with the motto 'Au bien de la Patrie' also in the same year. The engraving on the present glass is very reminiscent of the signed and dated 1760 glass with the French motto with the characteristic wide polished vertical edges to the sails. Also cf. Christie's Laren, sale 26 March 1980, lot 1497 and Christie's London, 4 June 1985, lot 61

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