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A Dutch engraved light-baluster vintner's goblet, circa 1750
30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
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A Dutch engraved light-baluster vintner's goblet, circa 1750
The round funnel bowl decorated with a storehouse, its doors propped open by barrels to reveal a man wearing a night cap and holding aloft a goblet and flask flanked by barrels, beneath an arbour of fruiting vine, a vacant ribbon below, set on a tall multi-knopped stem and folded conical foot, 18cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Christie's, 29 June 1993, lot 148
Literature:
Lloyd (2000), p.97, pl.141
For another goblet decorated with the same subject see Reino Liefkes, Catalogus van de glasverzameling, Museum Mr Simon van Gijn (1987), p.76, no.86 and another from the Anton Dreesmann Collection, sold at Christie's, Amsterdam, 16 April 2002, lot 1243.
The scene of a man in a cellar also illustrates the phrase 'Hansje in de kelder', found on the Dreesmann goblet, which refers to an unborn child. Its safe birth was celebrated by drinking a toast.
