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A fine Dutch engraved composite stem light baluster goblet signed by Jacob Sang dated 1760The generous round funnel bowl decorated with a large farm before an elaborate gated entrance and small bridge, a tiny figure standing outside, bounded by iron railings hedges and rows of tall trees, encircled by a watercourse, an avenue of trees to the right, inscribed 'BLOEJLANG, ZUYDHOEVE/ IN RUST EN VREE,/ MET ZEGEN OVER LAND EN VEE/ G. HOYER' (May Zuidhoeve long prosper, in peace and quiet, with blessed land and cattle. G. Hoijer) on the reverse, the stem with a multi-spiral airtwist dumbbell section above a teared inverted baluster with a small basal knop, over a conical foot, the pontil mark inscribed in partially abraded diamond-point script 'J. Sang Fec.' with the date '1760' below, 20.8cm highFootnotesProvenance Dr N Potter Collection, Sotheby's, 13 July 1987, lot 203 Dietmar Zoedler Collection, Sotheby's, 21 November 2007, lot 45 With Kunstzalen A vecht, 18 November 2014 Stephen Pohlmann Collection Literature F G A M Smit, A Concise Catalogue of Eighteenth-Century Wine-Glasses wheel-engraved and signed by Jacob Sang (1992), p.13, no.1760.7 The view on this goblet has never been previously identified, but is almost certainly a farm by the name of Zuidhoeve (literally 'South Farm') on the Duivenvoorde estate in Voorschoten, just outside of The Hague. The original 16th century building still exists in part, where it is surrounded by watercourses and avenues of trees. Its architectural appearance very much resembles the building depicted on the present goblet. Around two miles northwest of Zuidhoeve a neighbouring 16th century farm by the name of De Astopwoning of Kleyn Haesbroek existed on what is now the estate of Kasteel Oud-Wassenaar. In 1764 this came into the hands of Gerard Hoijer and Paulus Hoijer van Brakel, who expanded the estate with a mansion called Snippenstein (today known as Oud-Wassenaar). Gerard was a lawyer and Paulus a prosecutor at the Hof van Holland. Gerard is almost certainly the same 'G Hoyer' referred to on the present goblet, perhaps intended as a gift for the owner. This shape of goblet was a favourite of Sang, with seven examples including the present lot recorded by Smit (1992), p.5. Whilst sand typically inscribed his signature on the foot of his goblets, several examples are recorded with signatures on the pontil mark, either in full or abbreviated to 'J. Sang'. A goblet of very similar form but with different engraving, signed 'Jacob Sang, inv: et Fec: Amsterdam 1764' on the pontil mark, is illustrated by Pieter C Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Vol.2 (1995), pp.202-3, no.214 and recorded by Anna Laméris, Pur Sang: Een onderzoek naar de kenmerken van de stijl van Jacob Sang aan de hand van zijn gesigneerde glazen, unpublished PhD thesis, Kunsthistorisch Instituut Amsterdam (1994), no.1764.4. Another of very similar form engraved with a coat of arms and signed 'Jacob Sang... fec. Amsterdam 1769' on the pontil mark, unrecorded by both Smit and Laméris, was sold by Sotheby's New York on 15 December 1998 and again by Christie's Amsterdam on 19 December 2007, lot 93. Curiously the signature, much like that on the present lot, had been partially erased with scratching. This is not unusual and may have been because the donor did not want the engraver to be identified. Indeed, it is possible that some of Sang's commissions were from individuals who specifically requested that he did not sign his work so prominently or at all, hence the use of the pontil mark in such a way, perhaps in the hope that it would go unnoticed.