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ENGRAVED BY JACOB SANG, SIGNED AND DATED AMSTERDAM, 1761
Details
A Dutch-engraved betrothal light baluster goblet
Engraved by Jacob Sang, signed and dated Amsterdam, 1761
The funnel bowl with two couples, their hands clasped standing before four flaming tied hearts lying on an altar, on a paved terrace flanked by balustrades and trees, a radiant All-Seeing Eye within a triangle above, within an elaborate scroll cartouche with pairs of billing doves, flowers and diaper-pattern and suspending beaded swags, the reverse inscribed HET TWEETAL SUSTERS, DAT SIGH IN DEN EGT VERBIND, WENS IK DAT IN DIEN STAAT, VEEL HEYL EN ZEEGEN VIND (I wish that the two sisters who each are going to get married may encounter a good deal of happiness and prosperity in that state), the stem with an angular knop above a beaded inverted baluster section and basal knop, the conical foot signed and dated in diamond-point Jacob Sang, inv = et Fec = Amsterdam, 1761, small chip to the footrim
19 cm. (7½ in.) high
Engraved by Jacob Sang, signed and dated Amsterdam, 1761
The funnel bowl with two couples, their hands clasped standing before four flaming tied hearts lying on an altar, on a paved terrace flanked by balustrades and trees, a radiant All-Seeing Eye within a triangle above, within an elaborate scroll cartouche with pairs of billing doves, flowers and diaper-pattern and suspending beaded swags, the reverse inscribed HET TWEETAL SUSTERS, DAT SIGH IN DEN EGT VERBIND, WENS IK DAT IN DIEN STAAT, VEEL HEYL EN ZEEGEN VIND (I wish that the two sisters who each are going to get married may encounter a good deal of happiness and prosperity in that state), the stem with an angular knop above a beaded inverted baluster section and basal knop, the conical foot signed and dated in diamond-point Jacob Sang, inv = et Fec = Amsterdam, 1761, small chip to the footrim
19 cm. (7½ in.) high
Provenance
Collection Guépin; Christie's, Amsterdam, 5 July 1989, lot 124.
With F. Laméris Antiquair, Amsterdam, 1998, acquired by
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. H-62).
With F. Laméris Antiquair, Amsterdam, 1998, acquired by
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. H-62).
Literature
H.E. van Gelder, De Rotterdamse glasgraveur Marinus van Gelder, in Oud-Holland 66, 1951, p. 18-23, no. 22.
Anonymous, Journal Glass Studies 1, 1959, p. 113, no. 34.
B.R.M. de Neeve, Dutch engraved glass in de A.J. Guépin
collection, in Apollo 80 (33), 1964, p. 383, fig. 9.
F.G.A.M. Smit, A concise catalogue of eighteenth-century wine-glasses wheel-engraved by Jacob Sang, Peterborough, 1992, p. 15, no. 1761.3.
Anonymous, Journal Glass Studies 1, 1959, p. 113, no. 34.
B.R.M. de Neeve, Dutch engraved glass in de A.J. Guépin
collection, in Apollo 80 (33), 1964, p. 383, fig. 9.
F.G.A.M. Smit, A concise catalogue of eighteenth-century wine-glasses wheel-engraved by Jacob Sang, Peterborough, 1992, p. 15, no. 1761.3.
Exhibited
Delft, Museum Het Prinsenhof, 1969, no. 117.
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