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A Dutch engraved baluster wine glass, circa 1770 image 1
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Lot 36

A Dutch engraved baluster wine glass, circa 1770

1 May 2013, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Dutch engraved baluster wine glass, circa 1770

The rounded funnel bowl finely engraved with flaming hearts on an altar beneath the sun emerging from clouds, the reverse with a four-line inscription unusually in English, the 'Newcastle' type stem entirely facet-cut and on a conical foot also cut with facets, 17.7cm high

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Provenance: Peter Meyer Collection
With Frides Lameris, Amsterdam, 13 June 1982

The verse reads:
TWO HEARTS LIKE THESE
JOINED MUTUALY FOR LIFE
MAKE THE GLAD HUSBAND
AND THE HAPPY WIFE

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