a dutch-wheelengraved wine glass "kraamvrouwenglas"

CIRCA 1760, THE GLASS NETHERLANDS OR ENGLAND

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a dutch-wheelengraved wine glass "kraamvrouwenglas"
Circa 1760, the glass Netherlands or England
The funnel-shaped bowl decorated with an accouchement room with a tiled floor with the mother sitting upright in a bed to the left, a man sitting next to her and a table at the foot of the bed, with a wet-nurse feeding the infant and a woman standing behind her, the cradle in front, in a cartouche with C- and S-scrolls and scrolling foliage, the reverse inscribed with Geluk/Met/De/Kram/Vrouw/En/T/Kindie, on a balustroid stem with three knops, a merese and tears, on a conical foot, 1.5cm. crack
19.6cm. high

Literature

COMPARATIVE!!!!!!!!!
Liefkes, J.R., Museum Mr. Simon van Gijn, Catalogus van de glasverzameling, Dordrecht 1987, p. 89, no. 114.
Mees, M., Glashelder. Tafel- en sierglas van de 16e tot de 18e eeuw, Galerij van de Kredietbank, 25 maart - 15 mei 1994, pp. 20-21, p. 77, no. 65.
Ritsema van Eck, P.C., Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Volume II, Zwolle 1995, pp. 341-344, ill. 397-404.

Lot Essay

Many of the themes used with wheelengraving are related to various aspects of social and daily life, and to memorable occasions. Popular themes are coats of arms, congratulations, the Republic, friendship, etc. Inscriptions are often depicted with a fitting or explanatory depiction which is allegorical or illustrative. A characteristic inscription is Hansie in de kleder together with a child in the cellar or a pregnant woman, which symbolises the approaching birth. Maternity glasses such as this lot, are often engraved with a woman who has just given birth, lying in bed and an infant in a cradle, inscribed with the text 't Welvaaren van de kraamvrouw en 't kintie. Such maternity or kandeel glasses were probably used for warm wine mixed with cinnamon, egg yokes and sugar (kandeel), or they were used as gift in memory of the joyful event.

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