Lot Essay
A covered goblet with a half-length portrait of a young woman, signed and dated 1772 was sold in our London rooms on 9 July 1997, lot 530.
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ENGRAVED BY JACOBUS VAN DEN BLIJK, SIGNED AND DATED, 1793
Details
A Dutch stipple-engraved light baluster goblet
Engraved by Jacobus van den Blijk, signed and dated, 1793
The funnel bowl engraved with a putto disguised as Mercury in winged helmet and sandals holding his a caduceus in his right hand and a bag with coins in his left, standing among packages and barrels and flanked by shrubbery, with arched ribbon cartouche above inscribed DE KOOPHANDEL (The Commerce), signed and dated in diamond-point J: Van Den Blyk f: 1793 below, the stem with a short knopped-section above a beaded inverted baluster section with basal knop, on a conical foot
17.8 cm. (7 in.) high
Engraved by Jacobus van den Blijk, signed and dated, 1793
The funnel bowl engraved with a putto disguised as Mercury in winged helmet and sandals holding his a caduceus in his right hand and a bag with coins in his left, standing among packages and barrels and flanked by shrubbery, with arched ribbon cartouche above inscribed DE KOOPHANDEL (The Commerce), signed and dated in diamond-point J: Van Den Blyk f: 1793 below, the stem with a short knopped-section above a beaded inverted baluster section with basal knop, on a conical foot
17.8 cm. (7 in.) high
Provenance
With Mallett and Sheppard and Cooper, London, 1990.
With F. Laméris Antiquair, Amsterdam, 1997, acquired by
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. H-59).
With F. Laméris Antiquair, Amsterdam, 1997, acquired by
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. H-59).
Literature
M. Mees, Glashelder, tafel en sierglas van de 16de tot de 18de eeuw, Brussel, 1994, ill. 58.
C. Sheppard & J. Smith, A collection of fine glass from the Restoration to the Regency, London, 1990, pp. 82-83, no. 115.
F.G.A.M. Smit, Uniquely Dutch Eighteenth-Century Stipple-Engravings on Glass, Peterborough, 1993, p. 104, Ch. 6.
C. Sheppard & J. Smith, A collection of fine glass from the Restoration to the Regency, London, 1990, pp. 82-83, no. 115.
F.G.A.M. Smit, Uniquely Dutch Eighteenth-Century Stipple-Engravings on Glass, Peterborough, 1993, p. 104, Ch. 6.
Special notice
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