A Dutch-engraved composite-stemmed betrothal goblet
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A Dutch-engraved composite-stemmed betrothal goblet

ENGRAVED BY JACOB SANG, SIGNED AND DATED, AMSTERDAM, 1760

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A Dutch-engraved composite-stemmed betrothal goblet
Engraved by Jacob Sang, signed and dated, Amsterdam, 1760
The funnel bowl engraved with a dextrarum iunctio scene of a lady and a gentleman clasping their right hands and holding a ring surmounted with billing doves, above an altar with two burning hearts, on a chequered floor, a radiant All-Seeing Eye within a triangle emanating from clouds above, the reverse with the inscription DE HUWELYKS BANDT, BINDT HART EN HANDT (The bond of marriage ties heart and hand), the stem with an airtwist inverted double-knopped section above a plain inverted baluster section enclosing an elongated tear, the conical foot signed and dated in diamond-point Jacob Sang, inv = et Fec = Amsterdam, 1760
20.7 cm. (8 1/8 in.) high
Provenance
With P.J.G. Korf de Gidts Antiquair, Amsterdam, 1987, acquired by
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. H-41).
Literature
F.G.A.M. Smit, A concise catalogue of eighteenth-century wine-glasses wheel-engraved by Jacob Sang, Peterborough, 1992, p. 14, no. 1760.9.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Nieuwe Kerk, Kunst- en Antiekbeurs, 1987.
Special notice
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