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Lot Essay
After Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblèmes, 1691, 'l'Amour faisant le beure'.
Details
A Dutch engraved goblet
1725-1750
The trumpet bowl with a plump winged cupid with a quiver of arrows and churning butter on a barrel with both hands, on a grassy vignette flanked by flower branches, above the moralistic inscription EMOUVOIR. FAIT UNIER, sic., 'Love grows with pains', the stem with a shoulder knop and inverted baluster section enclosing a tiny tear above basal knop, conical folded foot
16.8 cm. high
1725-1750
The trumpet bowl with a plump winged cupid with a quiver of arrows and churning butter on a barrel with both hands, on a grassy vignette flanked by flower branches, above the moralistic inscription EMOUVOIR. FAIT UNIER, sic., 'Love grows with pains', the stem with a shoulder knop and inverted baluster section enclosing a tiny tear above basal knop, conical folded foot
16.8 cm. high
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