THE GLASS ENGLAND OR THE NETHERLANDS, CIRCA 1760

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A rare Dutch-engraved light baluster Surinam goblet
THE GLASS ENGLAND OR THE NETHERLANDS, CIRCA 1760
The funnel bowl engraved with a continuous scene of two nude natives wearing a loincloth and toiling in a sugar cane plantation underneath T.WELVAREN VAN SURENAME (the Prosperity of Surinam), the balustroid stem enclosing oblique tears
19.4 cm. high

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Lot Essay

Surinam, an independent republic in South America, was a Dutch colony from 1616 till 1975. The Dutch West India Company was founded in 1621 in order to exploit the colonies in the Americas. Parts of the country were divided in large plantations using African slaves as a workforce. The former tobacco plantations were transformed into sugar cane plantations around 1650.

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