THE ENGRAVING CIRCA 1790, THE GLASS MID 18TH CENTURY

Details

A pair of Dutch-engraved light baluster "Batavian Liberty" goblets
The engraving circa 1790, the glass mid 18th Century
The funnel bowls with a female figure of Liberty or Hollandse Maagd holding a liberty hat on an upturned spear and leaning against a bible on a pedestal, upon a foliage scroll, one inscribed DE DACH ZY HEILIG IN BATAEFSCHE LANDS-KRONYKEN, TOEN ZWYNDREGT MUITZUCHT DEED VOOR BURGER WAPENS WYKEN (The day may be blessed in the chronicles of the Batavian country, that the uprising of the town of Zwijndrecht withstood the arms of the gentry), the other with DE VRYHEID-VADERLANDS- EN WARE VRINDSCHAPS-MIN SCHENK DAN OP ZWYNDREGTS HEIL DEEZ' VRINDSCHAPS BEKER IN (For the love of country's freedom and real friendship fill this friendship's goblet and drink a toast to Zwijndrecht), within wavy banners with dotted extremities ending in foliage, the reverses with a rose, on multi-knopped beaded stems and conical feet
18.5 cm. (7¼ in.) high (2)

Provenance

With P.J.G. Korf de Gidts Antiquair, Middenbeemster, 1980, acquired by
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. H-32).

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Lot Essay

These goblets were called Bataafse vrijheidsglazen and were commissioned to commemorate the uprising of the Patriotic movement in the town of Zwijndrecht, near Dordrecht during the turbulent times when the Republic of the Dutch United Provinces was invaded by the French in 1795. The "patriots" were in favour of the ideals of the French Revolution and accordingly collaborated with the French in establishing the Bataafse Republiek (1795-1806). The stadholders of the House of Orange subsequently had to leave the country returning in 1813 when Willem I was established as the first Dutch constitutional monarch.

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