A LARGE PALE GREEN-TINTED CALLIGRAPHIC COPPER-WHEEL-ENGRAVED ROEMER
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A LARGE PALE GREEN-TINTED CALLIGRAPHIC COPPER-WHEEL-ENGRAVED ROEMER

LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE NETHERLANDS

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A LARGE PALE GREEN-TINTED CALLIGRAPHIC COPPER-WHEEL-ENGRAVED ROEMER
LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE NETHERLANDS
The tapering bowl engraved in calligraphic script Valeant qui Inter nos Difsidium Volunt. (those who desire to spread discord among us will need strength) amongst flourishes and scrolls, above a cylindrical stem applied with prunts, on an applied trailed flared footrim, short crack to underside of foot
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Private collection, Haarlem.
Mr and Mrs Fritz Biemann, Küsnacht; sale Sotheby's, London, 16 June 1984, lot 20.
Joseph R. Ritman; sale Sotheby's, London, 14 November 1995, lot 28.
The Hida Takayama Museum of Art, Takayama, Japan; sale Sotheby's London, 19 December 2002, lot 31.
Literature
F.G.A.M. Smit, 29e Oude kunst-en antiekbeurs, Museum het Prinsenhof, Delft, 1977, p. 120.
F.G.A.M. Smit, Uniquely Dutch Seventeenth-Century Calligraphy on Glass: A Preliminary Catalogue, Peterborough, 1989, p. 119 (V2).
Hida Takayama Museum of Art, Masterpieces of European Glass 1500 - 1900, 2000, p. 41, no. H.083.
Exhibited
Seibu Gallery, Tokoyo, 2-30 June 2000, 'Art of Light, the World of Glass.'
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

A roemer engraved apparently by the same hand is in the collection of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, see Beatrice Jansen, Catalogus van Noord- en zuidnederlands glas, The Hague, 1962, pp. 70-71, no. 117.

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