1760-1780, ATTRIBUTED TO "ALIUS"

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An unrecorded Dutch stipple-engraved facet-stemmed goblet
1760-1780, attributed to "Alius"
The round funnel bowl with a well dressed young boy with a bow in his hair holding an opened birdcage in his right hand flanked by a girl standing on a higher level and holding a perch in her left hand and a rope high up in her right hand, a bird attached to the end of it and flying high over them, flanked by shrubbery, on root vignette, on facet-cut knopped and inverted baluster stem and conical foot
21,5cm high
See illustration and front cover

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Lot Essay

Unrecorded in F.G.A.M. Smit, Uniquely Dutch Eighteenth-Century stipple-engravings on glass (Peterborough 1993).
"ALIUS" An outstanding stipple-engraver, this master as far as is known, never signed any of the 134 engravings attributed to him by F.G.A.M. Smit. There is some similarity between various designs executed by him and by David Wolff and it is possible that "Alius" ("the Other") worked in close association with David Wolff and could have been a member of the Wolff family (op.cit. p.19). Smit: "No other stipple-engravers embellished wine-glasses with a knopped facet-cut stem" and "David Wolff exceptionally once used a knopped facet-stemmed goblet" (op.cit.p.20).

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