MID 18TH CENTURY, THE GLASS ENGLAND OR THE NETHERLANDS

Details

A Dutch-engraved light-baluster goblet
MID 18TH CENTURY, THE GLASS ENGLAND OR THE NETHERLANDS
The funnel bowl with a seated expectant mother in three quarter-profile, holding a branch, flanked by fruiting vines on a grassy sward above the inscription HANSJE IN DE KELDER 'Jack in the cellar', on a multi-knopped stem, conical folded foot
18.4 cm. high

Literature

Duysters, 2002, p. 185 no. 142.

Exhibited

H.M.A., invent. no. VS 44.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

'Hansje' goblets were used at gatherings of relatives and friends to discretely announce that one of the ladies present, presumably the hostess, was pregnant. On this goblet 'Hansje' is not depicted in a cellar, but as 'Pudicitia', allegorical of modesty or chastity.

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