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A Dutch-stipple-engraved friendship light-baluster wine glass

1760-1780, ATTRIBUTED TO ALIUS, THE GLASS ENGLAND OR THE NETHERLANDS

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A Dutch-stipple-engraved friendship light-baluster wine glass 1760-1780, ATTRIBUTED TO ALIUS, THE GLASS ENGLAND OR THE NETHERLANDS The rounded funnel bowl decorated with two winged boys shaking one hand, the left one in profile, the right one facing the other, both wearing loincloths, flanked by shrubbery, upon a root vignette, the stem enclosing oblique tears, the foot conical 18.6 cm. high

Special Notice

Lot Essay

See F.G.A.M. Smit, Uniquely Dutch eighteenth-century stipple-engravings on glass, Peterborough, 1993, p. 19 for some specific characteristics of Alius' work:
highlights strongly contrast with low-key areas; stippled outlines may remain partly visible; heads and bodies are of natural proportions but facial features, especially nose and mouth, are often too small.

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