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An important Dutch green tinted calligraphic Roemer by Heemskerk, dated 1678
21 May 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£30,000 - £40,000
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An important Dutch green tinted calligraphic Roemer by Heemskerk, dated 1678
The cup-shaped bowl inscribed 'In Liefde volstand' (Constancy in Love), set on a cylindrical section applied with three rows of raspberry prunts below an engrailed band, over a spun foot, kick-in base, 19cm high, signed 'A [JA?] van Heemsk 1678' below the bowl
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Provenance: The Anton Vecht Collection, sold by Sotheby's London, 10 November 1938, lot 42
With Constant Vecht, Amsterdam
Exhibited in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, as part of the 'Internationale Tentoonstelling Van Oude Kunst' in 1936.
The signature on this Roemer may be from the first two letters of Willem van Heemskerk's second name Jacobsz, or more likely that of a brother or son of Willem. They may be interpreted as either A. or J. A., although it may not be possible to establish the true identity of this particular engraver. However, the inscription on the present lot is wholly characteristic of the calligraphy of Willem van Heemskerk.
The present lot is illustrated by H. J. Koersen, Catalogus van de Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst uit het Bezit van den Internationalen Handel (1936), p. 191, pl. 118, by W. C. Braat, Collection de Verres des Pays-Bas 1, 22, 100, fig. 19, by F. Smit, Uniquely Dutch Seventeenth Century Calligraphy on Glass (1989), p. 83, pl. 4, and by John Sandon, Starting to Collect Antique Glass (1999), p. 72. A very similar engraved calligraphic Roemer signed by Willem van Heemskerk, dated 1676, is in the collection of the Toledo Museum (see the museum catalogue, Art in Glass (1969), p. 54, accession no. 53.89). A similar calligraphic Roemer again by Willem van Heemskerk, dated 1648, is in the collection of the Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, accession no. 2981. See also the unsigned example in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by William Honey, Glass (1946), pl. 58a. Another Roemer attributed to Willem van Heemskerk is in the Ernesto Wolf Collection, illustrated by Brigitte Klesse and Hans Mayr, European Glass from 1500-1800 (1987), cat. 168.