CIRCA 1800

Details

A Dutch stipple-engraved facet-stemmed Friendship goblet signed by L. Adams
Circa 1800
The ovoid bowl stippled with two seated women wearing long robes, holding hands and gazing at each other, the lady to the left facing to the right with a flaming heart in her right hand, the lady to the right facing to the left and resting her left hand on a garlanded columnar altar with two flaming hearts, inscribed L : Adams Fecit to the right, on a fringed ribbon below inscribed VRIENDSCHAP (Friendship), the faceted stem with five tiers of hexagons, the foot conical, in a fitted silk-lined box
17 cm. high
See illustration and back cover

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 22 may 1981, lot 611. Earl of Bradford, Shifnal. Anonymous sale, Christie's, King Street, 4 june 1985, lot 29. Sheppard & Cooper Ltd, London. With the present owner.

Literature

C.R.S. Sheppard and J.P. Smith, Engraved glass- Masterpieces from Holland, 1990, for an illustration of this goblet. F.G.A.M. Smit, Uniquely Dutch Eighteenth-Century Stipple-Engravings on Glass, Peterborough, 1993, p.134 De.1 for the complete records of this goblet.

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Lot Essay

L. Adams was an engraver, active around the turn of the eighteenth century and well into the nineteenth. He signed 14 goblets but nothing at all is known about his life. No data have been found of his existence in the archives, although he was once (1816) commissioned to engrave a glass in honour of a Rotterdammer.

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