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A fine Dutch stipple-engraved light-baluster wine glass with Chinoiserie decoration, by Alius, circa 1760 image 1
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A fine Dutch stipple-engraved light-baluster wine glass with Chinoiserie decoration, by Alius, circa 1760

The Muhleib Collection of European Glass
2 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A fine Dutch stipple-engraved light-baluster wine glass with Chinoiserie decoration, by Alius, circa 1760

The large round funnel bowl decorated with a diamond in stipple and line with a scene of an elderly man, seated on a stool before a stunted tree and playing a lute pyipar, accompanied by a boy on a set of five bells, set on a tall slender multi-knopped stem and conical foot, 22cm high

Footnotes

Only six other glasses with stippled chinoiseries have been recorded, of which one is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, another in the Mühsam Collection, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and a third in the Amsterdam Historisch Museum. All have been recorded by Frans Smit op.cit. (1993). Until 1980 the engraving on the present lot was considered to be the work of David Wolff.

Provenance:
J. van Buren, auction Scheurleer, The Hague, 11 December 1808, lot 98
Hultman
Boom, Breda
J.G.Littledale, Weybridge
The Anthony Waugh Collection, Wolverhampton, sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1980, lot 209
With Ward Lloyd, London

Exhibited:
'300 Years of British Glass 1675-1975', Art Gallery and Museum, Wolverhampton, 3.V, 14 June 1975, no.208, fig.

Literature:
D.H.de Castro, "Een en ander over glasgravure", Oud-Holland 1(4) (1883), p.274-291, pl. 1883, p.285
William Buckley, D.Wolff and the Glasses that he engraved (1935), p.30
Hugh Tait,'Wolff glasses in an English private collection', Connoisseur 168(676) (1968), p.105, figs. 5 and 6
G.A.Turnbull and A.G.Herron, The price guide to English 18th century drinking glasses (1970), p.78, fig.
Frans Smit, Uniquely Dutch Eighteenth Century Stipple-engravings on Glass, (1993), p.106, Ch.18

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