A DUTCH STIPPLE-ENGRAVED FACET-STEMMED WINE-GLASS
A DUTCH STIPPLE-ENGRAVED FACET-STEMMED WINE-GLASS

CIRCA 1795, ATTRIBUTED TO DAVID WOLFF

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A DUTCH STIPPLE-ENGRAVED FACET-STEMMED WINE-GLASS
CIRCA 1795, ATTRIBUTED TO DAVID WOLFF
The round bowl engraved with allegorical figures, with a standing helmeted figure, probably emblematic of War, holding a sword in his left hand and a native boy seated on a rock, a caduceus beside him, holding a medallion showing the Dutch lion under a Hat of Liberty in his left hand, both holding a ring, before a large fluted column with a corinthian capital inscribed EENDRAGT (Concord), flanked by bushes, the reverse inscribed T BEHOUD van NEÊRLAND (The Preservation of the Netherlands), on a faceted stem and conical foot
13.7 cm. (5 3/8 in.) high
Provenance
Anonymous; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 13 November 1990, lot 155.
The Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann Collection; Christie's, Amsterdam, 16 April 2002, lot 1274.

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