A Dutch-engraved large goblet and cover
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A Dutch-engraved large goblet and cover

FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY, THE GLASS ENGLAND OR THE NETHERLANDS

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A Dutch-engraved large goblet and cover
FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY, THE GLASS ENGLAND OR THE NETHERLANDS
The generous funnel bowl with a continuous scene of a lady in a canopied bed flanked by a laid table and a seated wet-nurse rocking a cradle with a baby, underneath DE CRAAMVROU ENT. KINTIE 'the new mother and the child', on heavy globular knop enclosing a tear, on an octagonal-section shouldered stem, spreading conical foot, the domed cover with octagonal spire finial (loss to the upper extremity of the spire finial)
40 cm. high
Literature
Duysters, 2002, p. 186 no. 143.
Exhibited
H.M.A., invent. no. VS 5.
Special notice
Christie’s charges a premium to the buyer on the Hammer Price of each lot sold at the following rates: 29.75% of the Hammer Price of each lot up to and including €5,000, plus 23.8% of the Hammer Price between €5,001 and €400,000, plus 14.28% of any amount in excess of €400,001. Buyer’s premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

Lot Essay

The new father served caudle or kandeel from this goblet to his relatives, friends and acquaintances when they visited the new born scion.

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