A Dutch engraved Royal armorial facet-cut baluster 'Orangist' goblet, circa 1788-90The generous round funnel bowl finely decorated with the arms of William V, Prince of Orange, beneath a crown and within the motto of the garter, supported by two crowned lions rampant, resting on a diaper bracket with husk festoons, a band of unusual spiral facets to the base of the bowl, the multi-faceted stem with an upper angular knop above a particularly bulbous inverted baluster with a small basal knop, over a facet-cut conical foot, 17.4cm highFootnotesProvenance With Kunsthandel Jaap Polak, 1986 Troostwijk Collection With Kunstzalen A Vecht, 25 September 2016 Stephen Pohlmann Collection William V, Prince of Orange was the last stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, and it is likely that the present glass was made for one of several Orange societies which sprang up following his restoration in 1787, see the footnote to lot 52 in this sale. An identical glass from the Dr John Richard Strong Collection was sold by Sotheby's on 7 May 2002, lot 56. A glass of similar form inscribed for an Orange society, dated 1788 and with virtually identical faceting, is in Amsterdam Museum, illustrated by Hubert Vreeken, Glas in Het Amsterdams Historisch Museum (1998), p.234, no.248 and another constitutes lot 52 in this sale. It is likely that all of these glasses, together with the present lot, were engraved in Amsterdam and perhaps also manufactured in the vicinity of the city.
A Dutch engraved Royal armorial facet-cut baluster 'Orangist' goblet, circa 1788-90The generous round funnel bowl finely decorated with the arms of William V, Prince of Orange, beneath a crown and within the motto of the garter, supported by two crowned lions rampant, resting on a diaper bracket with husk festoons, a band of unusual spiral facets to the base of the bowl, the multi-faceted stem with an upper angular knop above a particularly bulbous inverted baluster with a small basal knop, over a facet-cut conical foot, 17.4cm highFootnotesProvenance With Kunsthandel Jaap Polak, 1986 Troostwijk Collection With Kunstzalen A Vecht, 25 September 2016 Stephen Pohlmann Collection William V, Prince of Orange was the last stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, and it is likely that the present glass was made for one of several Orange societies which sprang up following his restoration in 1787, see the footnote to lot 52 in this sale. An identical glass from the Dr John Richard Strong Collection was sold by Sotheby's on 7 May 2002, lot 56. A glass of similar form inscribed for an Orange society, dated 1788 and with virtually identical faceting, is in Amsterdam Museum, illustrated by Hubert Vreeken, Glas in Het Amsterdams Historisch Museum (1998), p.234, no.248 and another constitutes lot 52 in this sale. It is likely that all of these glasses, together with the present lot, were engraved in Amsterdam and perhaps also manufactured in the vicinity of the city.
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