A façon de Venise engraved goblet
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A façon de Venise engraved goblet

CIRCA 1700, BOHEMIA OR THE NETHERLANDS

Details
A façon de Venise engraved goblet
CIRCA 1700, BOHEMIA OR THE NETHERLANDS
The funnel bowl with four dancing hares underneath the German inscription UNSER. SEINT. FUNFE 'we are five of us', the reverse with a sunburst flanked by trees, upon a merese and a hollow spirally ribbed globular knop and a similarly moulded slender oviform stem set on two mereses, ribbed conical folded foot
20.6 cm. high
Literature
Duysters, 2002, p. 70 no. 36.
Exhibited
H.M.A., invent. no. VS 167.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

This goblet has a humorous connotation as only four hares are depicted and a fifth is invoked; the user of the goblet would therefore be the 'fifth hare'. Perhaps the goblet once formed part of a set used by five friends. Hares can also have an erotic significance see Liefkes, 1988, p. 239 and Ritsema van Eck, 1995, p. 311 no. 337.

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