Goblet

1750

On the drinking vessel a scene of a couple and a friend drinking their health, executed in wheel-engraving, and provided at the top with the inscription 'DAT HET ONS WEL MAG GAAN IN ONSE OUDE DAAGEN' (That we may enjoy health and wealth in our old age) The cover is missing. The treatment of the motif and the way the scene is framed are reminiscent of the oeuvre of the Amsterdam engraver Jacob Sang (active 1752-1785). He is one of the few to have sometimes marked his glasses. A study of his life and oeuvre by A. Laméris appears in Glas in het Amsterdams Historisch Museum en Museum Willet-Holthuysen, Amsterdam, 1998, pp. 52-61. From the eighteenth century, Bohemian and English colourless glass was exported in vast quantities to the Netherlands where it was decorated with scenes, inscriptions, coats of arms or portraits using the wheel-engraving process.

• Places and dates

  The Netherlands, 1750? - ? (Production)

  Great-Britain, 1750? - ? (Production)

• Materials

  Glass

• Category

  Vessels

• Object number

  S1306

• IPR status

  Public domain