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A fine Dutch-engraved armorial goblet attributed to Jacob Sang, circa 1760
21 May 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£5,000 - £6,000
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A fine Dutch-engraved armorial goblet attributed to Jacob Sang, circa 1760
The large round funnel bowl finely engraved with the martial arms of the Admiralty on the River Maas at Rotterdam, the shield enclosing crossed anchors and the letters 'PPP', flanked by flags and trophies, neatly piled cannonballs in the foreground, the bowl set on a double merese above a four-knopped multiple spiral air-twist stem and a conical foot, 24.3cm high
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Provenance: The Dr Eugene Grabscheidt Collection, New York
Illustrated by Christopher Sheppard and John Smith, Glass from the Restoration to the Regency (1990), p. 59, cat. 84
The letters 'PPP' stand for 'Pro Patria Pugno' (I fight for the Fatherland). The attribution to Jacob Sang is based on similarities to various signed glasses by this engraver. A Rotterdam Admiralty wine glass with very similar engraving was sold in these rooms 17 December 2008, lot 442. Another, also attributed to Jacob Sang, is in the Historisches Museum der Stadt, Rotterdam, illustrated by N. I. Schadee, Met Rad en Diamant (1989), pp. 55-56, cat. 58. Other Admiraliteit glasses were made for Amsterdam, bearing the initials AA, see the example in the Amsterdam Historisch Museum illustrated by Hubert Vreeken, p. 200, cat. 196. An engraved glass with the same stem formation as the present lot is illustrated by Peter Lazarus, The Cinzano Glass Collection (1980), cat. 115
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