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A Dutch stipple-engraved topographical goblet by David Wolff, circa 1780-90 image 1
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A Dutch stipple-engraved topographical goblet by David Wolff, circa 1780-90

Fine Glass and British Ceramics
15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Dutch stipple-engraved topographical goblet by David Wolff, circa 1780-90

The large round funnel bowl engraved with a bay-fronted country house situated on a sandy road, to the side of the house a formal garden includes a row of clipped trees and a walkway leading to a gateway flanked by columns topped by lions, a man standing in the gateway greets another who is on horseback, a banderol above the house inscribed 'VRYHEIDS LUST', 20.5cm high (repair to foot)

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Provenance
A Dutch private collection
With Frides Lameris, Amsterdam, 1996
Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection

Literature
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig 23

Although Frans Smit does not include this glass in his 1993 catalogue of Dutch Stipple-Engraved Glass, he was able to identify the house as part of the Vrijherdshist estate on the Biltstraat, a sandy tree-lined road running between Utrecht and the village of Bilt.

Wolff's topographical work is rare and it shows his tremendous skill as an engraver, even to the extent of including wheel ruts in the soft road surface. It is interesting to compare this work with that of Laurence Whistler almost two centuries later. The attention to detail that David Wolff managed to achieve greatly influenced Whistler and many other stipple engravers and it is little wonder they held the master in such high regard.

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