
Jim Peake
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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).