Lot Essay
For another goblet engraved with a similar subject see Christopher Sheppard and John Smith, Engraved Glass, Masterpieces from Holland, p. 55, no. 27
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A DUTCH-ENGRAVED LIGHT-BALUSTER GOBLET
Circa 1750
The flared funnel bowl amusingly engraved with two pairs of legs showing from beneath a clump of trees, and with a sword, stick and tricorn hat lying discarded on the ground, the reverse inscribed HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE, supported on an angular knopped section above a beaded inverted baluster stem and basal knop, on a conical foot (minute chip to footrim)
8in. (20.5cm.) high
Circa 1750
The flared funnel bowl amusingly engraved with two pairs of legs showing from beneath a clump of trees, and with a sword, stick and tricorn hat lying discarded on the ground, the reverse inscribed HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE, supported on an angular knopped section above a beaded inverted baluster stem and basal knop, on a conical foot (minute chip to footrim)
8in. (20.5cm.) high