FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY, THE GLASS GERMANY

Details

A Dutch-engraved roemer
FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY, THE GLASS GERMANY
The globular bowl with a sailing vessel or boeier with a sailor toasting with a goblet, within a medallion and foliage, the reverse inscribed GIST. NOUW. SPLITST IOU TOUW. BEWART U GELT SOO BE HOUT GI HET UELT, upon a milled thread, the hollow cylindrical stem with two rows of raspberry prunts, with kick-in base, flared folded foot
19.4 cm. high

Literature

Duysters, 2002, p. 44 no. 8.

Exhibited

H.M.A., inv. no. VS 164.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The vessel is a so-called boeier, a small vessel used for local fluvial and coastal transport of goods.
See Baumgärtner, 1987, pp. 38-41 and Ritsema van Eck, 1995, p. 215 no. 228.

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