Details
A SMALL EMERALD-GREEN-TINTED SIGNED AND DATED DIAMOND-POINT ENGRAVED CALLIGRAPHIC SERVING-BOTTLE BY WILLEM VAN HEEMSKERK
1683, THE NETHERLANDS, SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED TO THE BASE
The slender neck with applied string rim, the globular body engraved in calligraphic script Sterken drank maekt wild. (strong drink makes you wild) within flourishes and scrolls, the kick-in base inscribed Omsichtig nutt de geesten van de wijn, Als levend Sap; en doodelijk fenijn (be careful imbibing the spirits of wine, they may be elixir of life or deadly venom) and Willem van Heemskerk AEs. 70½ Ao. 1683, some slight scratching to footrim, very slight cloudiness to interior
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) high
Provenance
H. Ph. 't Hooft-Lieftinck, Haarlem, circa 1915.
Visser 't Hooft, Haarlem.
H. Ph. Visser 't Hooft, Velp, circa 1943.
The Guépin Collection; sale Christie's, Amsterdam, 5 July 1989, lot 72.
Joseph R. Ritman; sale Sotheby's, London, 14 November 1995, lot 64.
Literature
Anonymous 1915, 17 (no. 354).
Heukensfeldt Jansen 1943, 32 (No. C).
Braat 1962, 32.
Bolten 1969, pl. 22.
Glerum 1970, 67 (no. 194b), 2 figs. p. 265.
F.G.A.M. Smit, Uniquely Dutch Seventeenth-Century Calligraphy on Glass: A Preliminary Catalogue, Peterborough, 1989, pp. 112, 151, S23.
Exhibited
Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 14 June - 12 July 1915, no. 354.
Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, 22 November 1969 - 5 January 1969, no. 118.
Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft, 21 December 1969 - 17 February 1970, no. 62.
Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, 27 March 1970 - 31 May 1970, no. 194b.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
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