ENGRAVING ATTRIBUTED TO JAN STAM, CIRCA 1750, THE GLASS PERHAPS ENGLISH

细节

A Dutch-engraved airtwist shipping goblet
Engraving attributed to Jan Stam, circa 1750, the glass perhaps English
The funnel bowl engraved in diamond-point with two ships in full sail and flying pennants, the reverse inscribed DE NOBELE ZEEVAART (The Noble Shipping), on a double-knopped stem filled with airtwist spirals above a conical foot
19.5 cm. (7 5/8 in.) high

来源

Collection Guépin; Christie's, Amsterdam, 5 July 1989, lot 82.
With F. Laméris Antiquair, Amsterdam, 1998, acquired by
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. H-64).

出版

D. Bolten, Een glasie van vriendschap, de glazen van de collectie Guépin, Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft, 1969, pl. 40.

展览

Delft, Museum Het Prinsenhof, 1969, no. 105.

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拍品专文

A mid-18th century wine-glass in the Victoria and Albert Museum, with a similar design of a whaler and identical lettering is signed on the foot Jan Stam. The same signature is found on two panes of glass diamond-engraved with whaling scenes.

Hunting the whale in icy waters around Greenland used to be a dangerous but lucrative undertaking. The safe return of the whaler was therefore a good reason for a whaling company to show its appreciation to the management and skipper by commissioning a goblet.