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A Dutch stipple-engraved wine glass by 'Alius' representing Friendship, circa 1770-80 image 1

Lot 73^*

A Dutch stipple-engraved wine glass by 'Alius' representing Friendship, circa 1770-80

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT

London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £10,875 inc. premium

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A Dutch stipple-engraved wine glass by 'Alius' representing Friendship, circa 1770-80

With a generous round funnel bowl, delicately engraved with two smartly-dressed boys shaking hands, in a garden with various plants and shrubs and an urn on a pedestal, a banderol at the top inscribed 'VRIENDSCHAP', the opaque twist stem with loose gauze encircled by a pair of spiral threads, on a heavy conical foot, 16.8cm high

Footnotes

Provenance
Richard, Earl of Bradford Collection, Weston Park
Christie's sale 4 June 1985, lot 24
With Mallett's, September 1995
Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection

Literature
Christopher Sheppard and John Smith, Engraved Glass Masterpieces from Holland (1990), pp.72-73, no.35
Frans Smit, Uniquely Dutch Eighteenth-Century Stipple-Engravings on Glass (1993), no.Cb13
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig.24

Friendship was one of Alius's favourite subjects and he frequently represented this with figures of two boys. A very similar glass with two boys toasting their friendship was in the Mühsam Collection, pl.5, no.36. Another goblet with two boys by Alius was sold by Bonhams 17 December 2008, lot 445. Opaque twist glasses with Dutch stipple engraving are rarely found.

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