Fine British and European Ceramics & Glass

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Lot 147
  • 147

A Dutch stipple-engraved facet-stemmed wine glass attributed to David Wolff, circa 1790

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Description

  • 15.5cm., 6 1/8 in.
the ovoid bowl decorated with a naked girl holding a sprig in her right hand, a banderole in her left, inscribed DE BESTE, the stem cut with hexagonal facets, over a conical foot

Provenance

The Frits Philips Collection, Eindhoven

Catalogue Note

For a very similar example in the City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, see F.G.A.M.Smit, Uniquely Dutch eighteenth century stipple-engravings on glass, 1993, p.132, no.Dd.38.