A DIAMOND-ENGRAVED BALUSTER WINE-GLASS, the funnel bowl with a teared solid lower part and engraved with an heraldic device, a shield within a sun in splendour surrounded by the motto SOL JUSTITIÆ ILLUSTRATA NOS, the reverse with a seated figure emblematic of the Arts beneath a tree and the inscription PALLAS TRAIECTINA SEMPER AUGUSTA, below the motto HONOS ALIT ARTES, supported on an angular knop above a basal knop, on a domed and folded foot, circa 1720

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A DIAMOND-ENGRAVED BALUSTER WINE-GLASS, the funnel bowl with a teared solid lower part and engraved with an heraldic device, a shield within a sun in splendour surrounded by the motto SOL JUSTITIÆ ILLUSTRATA NOS, the reverse with a seated figure emblematic of the Arts beneath a tree and the inscription PALLAS TRAIECTINA SEMPER AUGUSTA, below the motto HONOS ALIT ARTES, supported on an angular knop above a basal knop, on a domed and folded foot, circa 1720
15cm. high
Provenance
H. Paul-Huhne Esq., sale Sotheby's, 18 November 1968, lot 103

Lot Essay

'Honos Alit Artes' (Honour foster the arts) is the motto of the Greenhill family

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