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A fine Dutch diamond-point engraved façon de Venise 'Friendship' glass, possibly by Willem Mooleyser, dated 1682 image 1
A fine Dutch diamond-point engraved façon de Venise 'Friendship' glass, possibly by Willem Mooleyser, dated 1682 image 2
A fine Dutch diamond-point engraved façon de Venise 'Friendship' glass, possibly by Willem Mooleyser, dated 1682 image 3
A fine Dutch diamond-point engraved façon de Venise 'Friendship' glass, possibly by Willem Mooleyser, dated 1682 image 4
Lot 17

A fine Dutch diamond-point engraved façon de Venise 'Friendship' glass, possibly by Willem Mooleyser, dated 1682

21 May 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A fine Dutch diamond-point engraved façon de Venise 'Friendship' glass, possibly by Willem Mooleyser, dated 1682

The funnel bowl decorated with a seated gentleman toasting to a standing gentleman, inscribed in calligraphic script 'T Welvaren Van de Absente Vrienden 1682' (To the Prosperity of the Absent Friends), set on a hollow inverted baluster stem between mereses above a short plain section, over a folded conical foot engraved with floral sprays, 16.4cm high

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Provenance: The Overduin Collection
The Albrecht Nicolaas Baron de Vos van Steenwijk Collection, sold by Christie's Amsterdam, 15 May 2007, lot 18

Exhibited in the Historisch Museum Arnhem from 1995-2007, accession no. VS 175, and in the Gemeentemuseum Arnhem from 1920-1995.

The inscription and draughtsmanship are characteristic of Willem Mooleyser's work. Very little is known about Willem Mooleyser. Nine glasses bearing his signature or monogram are known, and many other glasses are attributed to him on stylistic grounds. With the exception of one dated 1663, they were all engraved by Mooleyser between 1685 and 1693. For glasses with almost identical lettering and themes, see Ritsema van Eck (1995), pp. 68-69, cat. 36 and p. 73, cat. 41. Similarly shaped glasses with engraving in the manner of Willem Mooleyser are illustrated by Frides and Kitty Laméris, Venetiaans and Façon de Venise Glas 1500-1700 (1991), pp. 126-127, cat. 130, and by Brigitte Klesse and Hans Mayr, European Glass from 1500-1800: The Ernesto Wolf Collection (1987), cat. 163. Three further examples were sold by Sotheby's London, 14 November 1995, lots 57, 59 and 65.

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