An engraved composite-stemmed light-baluster goblet
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An engraved composite-stemmed light-baluster goblet

CIRCA 1760, THE GLASS ENGLAND OR SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS, PERHAPS ENGRAVED BY JACOB SANG OR HIS WORKSHOP

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An engraved composite-stemmed light-baluster goblet
CIRCA 1760, THE GLASS ENGLAND OR SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS, PERHAPS ENGRAVED BY JACOB SANG OR HIS WORKSHOP
The funnel bowl with a continuous scene of a lady holding a child in her arms and another by the hand, with a flower vase and a hound on a chest beneath the inscription AL WAT ONS LIEF IS 'everything which is dear to us', upon a knopped section enclosing spiralling airtwist threads and a beaded inverted baluster section, conical foot (the stem repaired)
20.1 cm. high
Literature
Duysters, 2002, p. 171 no. 132
Exhibited
H.M.A., invent. no. VS 165.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

This glass bears strong similarities to the work by Jacob Sang; see Laméris, 1996, pp. 2-12 for a discussion.

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