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    Sale 2641

    EUROPEAN CERAMICS, DUTCH DELFTWARE AND GLASS

    Amsterdam

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    9 November 2004

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    • A rare Dutch-engraved light ba
    Lot 143

    A rare Dutch-engraved light baluster Surinam goblet

    THE GLASS ENGLAND OR THE NETHERLANDS, CIRCA 1760

    Price realised

    EUR 4,780

    Estimate

    EUR 2,000 - EUR 3,000

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    A rare Dutch-engraved light baluster Surinam goblet
    THE GLASS ENGLAND OR THE NETHERLANDS, CIRCA 1760
    The funnel bowl engraved with a continuous scene of two nude natives wearing a loincloth and toiling in a sugar cane plantation underneath T.WELVAREN VAN SURENAME (the Prosperity of Surinam), the balustroid stem enclosing oblique tears
    19.4 cm. high

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    Lot Essay

    Surinam, an independent republic in South America, was a Dutch colony from 1616 till 1975. The Dutch West India Company was founded in 1621 in order to exploit the colonies in the Americas. Parts of the country were divided in large plantations using African slaves as a workforce. The former tobacco plantations were transformed into sugar cane plantations around 1650.

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