Lot Essay
A bird-cage with an open door symbolises freedom. For a goblet with a similar decoration see P.C. Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Volume II, p. 430, ill. 544.
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ATTRIBUTED DAVID WOLFF, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Details
A Dutch stipple-engraved airtwist goblet
Attributed David Wolff, third quarter 18th Century
Decorated to the funnel bowl with two putti beside a bird-cage with its door open, the escaped bird perched on top, below the text AUREA LIBERTAS, minor frit
16.9 cm. high
Attributed David Wolff, third quarter 18th Century
Decorated to the funnel bowl with two putti beside a bird-cage with its door open, the escaped bird perched on top, below the text AUREA LIBERTAS, minor frit
16.9 cm. high
Provenance
Collection Carel Count van Lynden van Hoevelaken and by descent to the present owner.
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