A DUTCH-ENGRAVED FRIENDSHIP LIGHT-BALUSTER GOBLET by Jacob Sang, the funnel bowl decorated with two clasped handles emerging from cloud scrolls, a sun-burst above, within a crowned rococo scroll cartouche suspending swags of beads and inscribed above PROSOPOPIA, the reverse inscribed MIND GY EDELE VRIENDSCHAP TEEDER,/VULD MY DAN TOT AAN DEN RAND./DRINKT MY LEEG EN VULD MY WEEDE,/STELD MY ZOO UW VRIEND TER HAND (If you value tender, noble friendship/Then fill me to the brim/Drink me empty and refill me/And thus hand me to your friend), supported on a beaded knopped and inverted baluster stem with basal knop above a conical foot (silver repair to stem between beaded knops, chip to footrim), signed and dated on the foot Jacob Sang, inv=et Fec: Amsterdam, 1759, 1759

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A DUTCH-ENGRAVED FRIENDSHIP LIGHT-BALUSTER GOBLET by Jacob Sang, the funnel bowl decorated with two clasped handles emerging from cloud scrolls, a sun-burst above, within a crowned rococo scroll cartouche suspending swags of beads and inscribed above PROSOPOPIA, the reverse inscribed MIND GY EDELE VRIENDSCHAP TEEDER,/VULD MY DAN TOT AAN DEN RAND./DRINKT MY LEEG EN VULD MY WEEDE,/STELD MY ZOO UW VRIEND TER HAND (If you value tender, noble friendship/Then fill me to the brim/Drink me empty and refill me/And thus hand me to your friend), supported on a beaded knopped and inverted baluster stem with basal knop above a conical foot (silver repair to stem between beaded knops, chip to footrim), signed and dated on the foot Jacob Sang, inv=et Fec: Amsterdam, 1759, 1759
19cm. high

Provenance

The late Peter Lazarus Esq., sale Christie's, 26 November 1991, lot 149

Exhibited

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, loan no. 393

Lot Essay

The four-line poem is taken from D. Smit, Gedichten, 1740

A glass of similar construction engraved by the same hand with this subject, also dated 1759, from the Bradford Collection was sold in these Rooms on 4 June 1985, lot 58. Also cf. the example from the Collection of the late Mrs. Mary P. Ager, sold in these Rooms on 18 April 1978, lot 116. An identical glass, signed and dated 1759, is in the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam and another, unsigned, in the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden

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