Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 27*
A Dutch engraved royal armorial goblet, circa 1740-50
20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £892.50 inc. premium
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A Dutch engraved royal armorial goblet, circa 1740-50
The round funnel bowl with the crowned arms of Prince William IV of Orange-Nassau and Princess Anne, inscribed with the motto of the Garter 'HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE', within an elaborate cartouche of tied orange tree branches bearing the arms of the Seven United Provinces, the stem with an annular and cushion knop and beaded inverted baluster with basal knop, on a conical foot, 19.3cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
With Maureen Thompson, London
Prince William IV of Orange (1711-1751) was Stadtholder of Friesland and later also of Groningen and of Gelderland. He married Anne, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach, at St James' Palace in 1734. A very similar glass with these arms is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.273, no.859, which is probably the same glass purchased in 1983 by Temple Newsam House. Another was sold by Christie's on 2 November 2005, lot 21.
