CIRCA 1775, ATTRIBUTED TO DAVID WOLFF

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A Dutch stipple-engraved light-baluster confinement wine-glass
CIRCA 1775, ATTRIBUTED TO DAVID WOLFF
The funnel bowl with a wine-cellar with wide open doors, to the right a standing lady reaching out her right hand to a standing cherub offering her a half-full wine-glass, in the cellar flanked by three barrels a seated cherub drawing wine into a jug, underneath a banderole inscribed HANSIE IN DE KELDER, on multi-knopped stem enclosing oblique tears, the foot conical (the foot with various repaired fragments)
17.9 cm. high

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Lot Essay

Unrecorded in Smit. For four other recorded very closely related wine-glasses see F.G.A.M. Smit, Uniquely Dutch Eighteenth-Century Stipple-Engravings on Glass, Peterborough, 1993, p. 129 Dd. 22-23-24-25.
'Hansje' goblets were used at gatherings of relatives and friends to discreetly announce that one of the ladies present, presumably the hostess was pregnant.

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