A Dutch-engraved light-baluster goblet

CIRCA 1760

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A Dutch-engraved light-baluster goblet
Circa 1760
The funnel bowl finely engraved in the manner of Christoffel Schroeder with Neptune in a nautilus-shell chariot drawn by sea-horses towards Venus, her chariot drawn by a pair of doves on a cloud, a ship in the distance, the bowl supported on a multi-knopped stem above a conical foot
8in. (20.5cm.) high

Provenance

The Krug Collection of Glass, sale Sotheby's, 7 July 1981, lot 150.

Literature

Dr. Brigitte Klesse, Glassammlung Helfried Krug (1965), Part I, no. 325.

Lot Essay

See Dr. Brigitte Klesse, op. cit. (1965), pp. 56-59 for a discussion concerning Schroeder who is recorded in the Delft Archives as being of Berlin origin, thus explaining the close stylistic similarities to Potsdam/Zechlin engravers such as Elias Rosbach.

The scene of Neptune and Venus is taken from a print by Virgil Solis. See B. Jansen, Catalogus van Noord-en Zuidnederlands glas (1962), no. 201.

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