A Netherlands faon de Venise goblet diamond-engraved by J.W. Kaldenbach

1678, SIGNED AND DATED AO 1678

細節

A Netherlands faon de Venise goblet diamond-engraved by J.W. Kaldenbach
1678, signed and dated Ao 1678
The flared funnel bowl engraved in diamond-point with a scene from the myth of Diana (Artemis) and Actaeon, the naked Diana at a woodland spring-head with a nymph to one side, splashing water towards Actaeon standing to her left, his hound behind beneath a stylised spray of flowers upon which perch a peacock and peahen, supported on a hollow quatrefoil knop set between two mereses above a conical folded foot engraved with fritillary and foliage
6 in. (15.3 cm.) high

來源

Meier Mossel, sale Frederick Muller, Amsterdam, 11-18 March, 1952, lot 537.
Private Collection, Amsterdam.

出版

Christopher R.S. Sheppard and John P. Smith, op. cit. (1990), pp. 12-13, no. 3.

拍品專文

The scene, after a print by Crispin de Pass, 1602 and reprinted in 1607, follows the story of Diana (Artemis) and Actaeon as recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses (III, 138-252).
Whilst the present glass appears to be the only recorded signed example of Kaldenbach's work, a glass beaker in the Muse de Verre, Lige, dated 1687 and engraved with the burning tower of Saint-Rombaut de Malines might also be attributed to the same hand, see J. Philippe, Glass: History and Art. From the Beginnings until Today(1982), fig. 115.