A BLUE-TINTED COPPER-WHEEL ENGRAVED CALLIGRAPHIC SERVING-BOTTLE
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A BLUE-TINTED COPPER-WHEEL ENGRAVED CALLIGRAPHIC SERVING-BOTTLE

1687, THE NETHERLANDS, INSCRIBED AND DATED ON THE BASE

Details
A BLUE-TINTED COPPER-WHEEL ENGRAVED CALLIGRAPHIC SERVING-BOTTLE
1687, THE NETHERLANDS, INSCRIBED AND DATED ON THE BASE
The slender neck with applied string rim, the globular body engraved in calligraphic script Het Werelds Goet is eb en Vloed (the world's fortunes ebb and flow) amongst flourishes and scrolls, the kick-in base inscribed Fidelité Constante Anno 1687. (constant fidelity), minor scratching around neck and foot
9 in. (22.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Jacob Dagofois (1661-1732), whose marriage to Marguérite de Vivier took place in Leiden, 18 September 1687, and thence by descent.
Christie's, London, 19 June 1984, lot 309.
Joseph R. Ritman; sale Sotheby's, London, 14 November 1995, lot 55.
Literature
F.G.A.M. Smit, Uniquely Dutch Seventeenth-Century Calligraphy on Glass: A Preliminary Catalogue, Peterborough, 1989, p. 80, H15.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

The Huguenot family of Dagofois (also known as Dagofos, Dagovos and Dagefos) settled in Leiden in the early 17th century. Leiden was a leading centre of the textile industry in Europe and it was also home to several amateur calligraphic glass engravers. Previously the engraving on this bottle has been attributed to François Crama (1637-1718). Both the Crama and the Dagofois families were involved in the textile industry and had close ties to the church. Conrad Dagofois, father of Jacob, the recipient of this bottle, married Jannetje Crama, a first cousin of the engraver François Crama. Appointed writing master at the Latin School in Leiden in 1683, François Crama was responsible for cutting a façade-stone with calligraphic script in 1685 which is still visible in Leiden today. The contradictory meanings of the inscriptions on the body and on the base of this bottle may suggest that it was given in celebration of a marriage, possibly that of Jacob Dagofois (1661-1732), son of Conrad Dagofois and Marie de Cheset, and his step-sister Marguérite de Vivier in Leiden on 18 September 1687; the bottle remained with the descendants of the family until it was sold by Christie's in 1984.


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