A Dutch engraved composite-stem light baluster goblet attributed to Jacob Sang circa 1760 The round funnel bowl with a continuous scene of a lady standing on a paved floor, holding a child in her arms and another by the hand, a collared hound standing upon a metal-bound strongbox to her left, and a horse to her right, the reverse with a large bouquet of flowers in a vase, the rim inscribed 'AL WAT ONS LIEF IS' (Everything Which is Dear to Us), set upon a multi-spiral airtwist section with an angular knop, over a plain beaded inverted baluster with basal knop, on a conical foot, 20.2cm high, inventory number '296' inscribed in black ink under the foot Fußnoten Provenance Christie's sale, 15 May 2007, lot 92 An identical glass with the same inscription and engraving signed and dated 'Jacob Sang, fec. Amsterdam, 1761' in diamond-point to the foot is illustrated by C R S Sheppard and J P Smith, Glass from the Restoration to the Regency (1990), pp.60-1, no.85. They note two other glasses with the same subject, both of which are unsigned, of which it is likely that the glass in the present lot is one. Another unsigned example was sold by Sotheby's on 21 March 2000, lot 334, which may be the second. A further signed and dated example in the form of an airtwist goblet inscribed 'Jacob Sang, inv: et Fec: Amsterdam 1759' to the foot was sold by Christie's on 19 December 2007, lot 167.
A Dutch engraved composite-stem light baluster goblet attributed to Jacob Sang circa 1760 The round funnel bowl with a continuous scene of a lady standing on a paved floor, holding a child in her arms and another by the hand, a collared hound standing upon a metal-bound strongbox to her left, and a horse to her right, the reverse with a large bouquet of flowers in a vase, the rim inscribed 'AL WAT ONS LIEF IS' (Everything Which is Dear to Us), set upon a multi-spiral airtwist section with an angular knop, over a plain beaded inverted baluster with basal knop, on a conical foot, 20.2cm high, inventory number '296' inscribed in black ink under the foot Fußnoten Provenance Christie's sale, 15 May 2007, lot 92 An identical glass with the same inscription and engraving signed and dated 'Jacob Sang, fec. Amsterdam, 1761' in diamond-point to the foot is illustrated by C R S Sheppard and J P Smith, Glass from the Restoration to the Regency (1990), pp.60-1, no.85. They note two other glasses with the same subject, both of which are unsigned, of which it is likely that the glass in the present lot is one. Another unsigned example was sold by Sotheby's on 21 March 2000, lot 334, which may be the second. A further signed and dated example in the form of an airtwist goblet inscribed 'Jacob Sang, inv: et Fec: Amsterdam 1759' to the foot was sold by Christie's on 19 December 2007, lot 167.
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