A VERY RARE DIAMOND-ENGRAVED JAN STAM RECTANGULAR NAVAL GLASS PANE, depicting a whaling scene, (walvisvaart) on the Spitsbergen islands or Nova Zembla with five large galleons with full blown sails and flying pennants on a quiet sea to the background, six heavily manned sloops surrounding a spouting whale and with various icefloes supporting seals to the foreground, signed Ian Stam to the lower left hand corner, (the upper right hand corner chipped), (framed)

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A VERY RARE DIAMOND-ENGRAVED JAN STAM RECTANGULAR NAVAL GLASS PANE, depicting a whaling scene, (walvisvaart) on the Spitsbergen islands or Nova Zembla with five large galleons with full blown sails and flying pennants on a quiet sea to the background, six heavily manned sloops surrounding a spouting whale and with various icefloes supporting seals to the foreground, signed Ian Stam to the lower left hand corner, (the upper right hand corner chipped), (framed)
mid-18th Century
22.5 x 35.5 cm

Lot Essay

A mid-18th Century wine-glass in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, specifically of a whaler is signed Jan Stam. The same signature is found on only two panes of glass diamond-point engraved with whaling scenes

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