A 'FACON DE VENISE' DIAMOND-ENGRAVED GOBLET, possibly by Willem Mooleyser, the flared funnel bowl with the Dutch Lion of the Province of Holland on a grassy sward, the reverse inscribed 'T Welvaren Van De Heeren Staten Van Hollandt' the base of the bowl applied with a vermicular collar, the stem with a ball knop enclosing a tear between two mereses, the conical foot with two flower-sprays and the figure 5 (portion of vermicular collar lacking), circa 1683

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A 'FACON DE VENISE' DIAMOND-ENGRAVED GOBLET, possibly by Willem Mooleyser, the flared funnel bowl with the Dutch Lion of the Province of Holland on a grassy sward, the reverse inscribed 'T Welvaren Van De Heeren Staten Van Hollandt' the base of the bowl applied with a vermicular collar, the stem with a ball knop enclosing a tear between two mereses, the conical foot with two flower-sprays and the figure 5 (portion of vermicular collar lacking), circa 1683
17 cm high

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Exhibited

Prinsenhof, Delft, 1969, no. 82

Lot Essay

The same hand engraved a virtually identical lion on a goblet inscribed 'De Staten van Hollandt' (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, see Seitz 1933, pl. 33), whilst a goblet of similar construction dated 1683 is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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