Lot Essay
'Hansje' goblets were used at gatherings of relatives and friends to discreetly announce that one of the ladies present, presumably the hostess, was pregnant.
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FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY, THE GLASS GERMAN
Details
A Dutch-engraved goblet
FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY, THE GLASS GERMAN
The funnel bowl with a man wearing a pointed bonnet and tapping from a barrel within a wreathed medallion, inscribed VIVAT HANSKE IN DE KELDER 'long life to Jack in the cellar', upon plain inverted baluster stem, conical folded foot
16.6 cm. high
FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY, THE GLASS GERMAN
The funnel bowl with a man wearing a pointed bonnet and tapping from a barrel within a wreathed medallion, inscribed VIVAT HANSKE IN DE KELDER 'long life to Jack in the cellar', upon plain inverted baluster stem, conical folded foot
16.6 cm. high
Literature
Duysters, 2002, p. 182 no. 139.
Exhibited
H.M.A., invent. no. VS 95.
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