A NETHERLANDS ARMORIAL GOBLET, the bucket bowl wheel-engraved with two coats-of-arms accollé flanked by rampant hound supporters, surmounted by a crest issuant with scrolling foliage, the reverse with a hunting scene showing three equestrian Eastern figures with spears and a sabre battling with two leopards, the stem with two ribbed compressed hollow knops divided by mereses above a short plain section, on a folded conical foot (the glass crisselled, chip to edge of one merese, foot repaired and with a very small section of plastic infill), circa 1680

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A NETHERLANDS ARMORIAL GOBLET, the bucket bowl wheel-engraved with two coats-of-arms accollé flanked by rampant hound supporters, surmounted by a crest issuant with scrolling foliage, the reverse with a hunting scene showing three equestrian Eastern figures with spears and a sabre battling with two leopards, the stem with two ribbed compressed hollow knops divided by mereses above a short plain section, on a folded conical foot (the glass crisselled, chip to edge of one merese, foot repaired and with a very small section of plastic infill), circa 1680
22.5cm. high

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The decoration to the reverse is most likely taken from a print, the source so far unidentified. For a detailed discussion on Dutch wheel-engraving of the late 17th century and some relevant print sources see Pieter C. Ritsema van Eck, 'Early Wheel Engraving in the Netherlands', Journal of Glass Studies, Vol. 26, 1984, pp. 86-101

Arthur Churchill Ltd., op.cit., No. 13, 1953, p. 22, figs. 18-19 illustrates a wheel-engraved goblet of similar construction and there suggests an early Ravenscroft attribution; however, it would seem more likely that both that goblet and the present example are of Netherlandish origin

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