A Rotterdam-engraved light-baluster dated armorial goblet
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A Rotterdam-engraved light-baluster dated armorial goblet

1733, THE GLASS ENGLAND OR THE NETHERLANDS

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A Rotterdam-engraved light-baluster dated armorial goblet
1733, THE GLASS ENGLAND OR THE NETHERLANDS
The funnel bowl with a sunburst above matrimonial devices and mirroring monogrammed cartouches above a formal garden scene and a cartouche with the coat-of-arms of Rotterdam and 25: IAN: AO 1733, flanked by a figure allegorical of Chastity to the left and one of Charitas to the right, on multi-knopped stem enclosing an elongated tear, conical foot (stem broken underneath second upper knop and restored)
23.7 cm. high
Literature
Duysters, 2002, p. 177 no. 138.
Exhibited
H.M.A., invent. no. VS 1.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

This goblet belongs to a group which has been engraved by an anonymous Rotterdam master. An almost identical goblet dated 1746 in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam see Ritsema van Eck, 1995, p.191 no. 203, p.277. A related matrimonial goblet in the Historisch Museum Rotterdam see Schadee, 1989, pp.72-73 no. 95.

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