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Lot Essay
Hendrik Scholting was a diamond-point engraver (Dordrecht 27 September 1700 - 29 January 1780) and was also master blacksmith; he added his profession 'Mr. Smit a Dort' to his signature on one glass panel. From 1742 to 1766 he was inspector of the Mint of Holland and Zeeland. In Dordrecht, Hendrik Scholting was a man of means; besides a smithy and a blacksmith's shop he owned eight houses, a coach house and stables. Scholting made calligraphic inscriptions in different types of scripts on wine glasses and glass panels. Seven wine glasses signed by him are known, as well as seven glass panels.
Cf. F.G.A.M. Smit, Auction Catalogue Christie's London, London 4th June 1985, p.10.
F.G.A.M. Smit, Line-engraved glass (photocopy published privately), (Petersborough 1994), p. 93.
J.R. Liefkes, Museum Mr. Simon van Gijn, Catalogus van de Glasverzameling (Dordrecht 1987), pp.43, 125-127.
P.C. Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Volume II (Zwolle 1995), p.471 for the above notes on Hendrik Scholting, and p.135, no.126 for a diamondpoint-engraved calligraphic glass panel dated 1763 and signed Hendrik Scholting Mr. Smit a Dort, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Cf. F.G.A.M. Smit, Auction Catalogue Christie's London, London 4th June 1985, p.10.
F.G.A.M. Smit, Line-engraved glass (photocopy published privately), (Petersborough 1994), p. 93.
J.R. Liefkes, Museum Mr. Simon van Gijn, Catalogus van de Glasverzameling (Dordrecht 1987), pp.43, 125-127.
P.C. Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Volume II (Zwolle 1995), p.471 for the above notes on Hendrik Scholting, and p.135, no.126 for a diamondpoint-engraved calligraphic glass panel dated 1763 and signed Hendrik Scholting Mr. Smit a Dort, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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