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Lot 38*

A Dutch engraved light baluster goblet, circa 1750

20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,530 inc. premium

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A Dutch engraved light baluster goblet, circa 1750

The round funnel bowl with a pregnant lady toasting her glass to a winged putto, his glass also raised, another putto filling a jug from a wine barrel in a vaulted cellar behind him, beneath the inscription 'HANSIE IN D' KELDER' (Little Hans in the Cellar), set on a cushion and an annular knop, above a swelling stem section containing an elongated tear between knops, over a conical foot, 19.4cm high

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This popular subject on Dutch glass brings news of a pregnancy, the toast to the lady of the house announcing that there is a 'Little Hans in the Cellar'. A similarly engraved glass from the John De Tscharner Vischer Collection was sold by Bonhams on 18 May 2016, lot 64.

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