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A Private Belgian Collection
Lot 29*

A fine and large Dutch engraved light baluster armorial goblet, circa 1750

27 November 2024, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£3,500 - £4,500

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A fine and large Dutch engraved light baluster armorial goblet, circa 1750

The generous round funnel bowl decorated with the Dutch Virgin in classical dress, a book on a pedestal beside her, the crowned Dutch Lion holding a sabre and a bundle of arrows at her feet, surrounded by the individual crowned coats of arms of the Seven Dutch Provinces within a long and winding banderole inscribed with a verse by Hieronymus Sweerts in diamond-point, the rim with four winged putto holding festoons of circlets, on a tall stem with upper, central and lower knops divided by an inverted baluster and a plain section, over a folded conical foot, 25cm high

Footnotes

Provenance
Private Collection, Belgium

Literature
Marc Mees, Glashelder: Tafel- en sierglas van de 16e tot de 18e eeuw (1994), no.73

The inscription on the banderole is from 'In den Haag, daar de VII. Provintien vers eenigt zijn' by the Dutch poet Hieronymus Sweerts (1629-1696), first published in Koddige en ernstige opschriften luyffens, wagens, enz. under the pseudonym Jeroen Jeroense. It reads...

'EEN STAAT DIE SO VEREENT EN T'SAMEN WERT BEVOGTE DIE BLYFT EEN STAET ZO VAST GELYCK DE NOORDER STER SY DAELT NOGH SY VALT HOESEER SY WERT BEVOGTE MAER BREECKT EEN SCHAKEL LOS SO RAECKT SELIGT OMVER' (And a State that is so united and woven together, it shines, and is so sure, like the North Star. She neither descends nor falls, though she is fought bravely. But if a link is loosened, it will easily turn over).

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