A very rare Dutch stipple-engraved opaque twist 'Friendship' glass by David Wolff, circa 1770The generous round funnel bowl delicately decorated with two smartly dressed boys shaking hands, one raising a half-filled long-stemmed wine glass held in his left hand in a toast, various small trees and shrubs behind, beneath a banderol inscribed 'VRIENDSCHAP', the double-series stem with a pair of opaque white spiral threads around an undulating gauze column, over a conical foot, 16.7cm highFootnotesProvenance Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 1 April 1951, lot 780 With Cecil Davis Jeffrey Rose Collection, Sotheby's, 6 March 1978, lot 62 Stephen Pohlmann Collection Literature Frank Davis, 'Talking about Salerooms', Country Life, Vol.163 (March 1978), p.1062, fig.2 P M Wood, 'Gentlemen - The King', Art and Antiques, Vol.39 (1979), p.23 J A Brooks, The Arthur Negus Guide to British Glass (1981), fig.116 F G A M Smit, Uniquely Dutch Eighteenth-Century Dutch Stipple-Engravings on Glass (1993), p.69, no.Cb.24 Exhibited Circle of Glass Collectors Commemorative Exhibition 1937-1962, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1962, no.306 Exhibition of English Glass, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1968, no.167 Friendship was highly valued in the 18th century and the bond between friends would have been sealed and resealed with toasts from specially engraved goblets such as this. Friendship was often symbolically portrayed, sometimes as putti or cherubs, but more commonly as two boys. As is the case on this particularly finely decorated glass, the majority of boys depicted on Dutch stipple-engraved 'Friendship' glasses are shown with a wine glass, sometimes also shaking hands. Opaque twist glasses with Dutch stipple engraving are rare and this is a particularly unusual choice of glass for Wolff. Only six such glasses engraved by him are recorded by Smit (1993), four of which are of comparable size and form to the present lot with straight double-series stems. They include no.Cb.2, similarly decorated with two boys shaking hands, and no.Ac.19 which is illustrated by Pieter C Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Vol.2 (1995), p.455, no.574. An opaque twist wine glass with a very similar scene and an identical inscription by 'Alius' was in the Kaplan Collection, sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 73. For another 'Friendship' glass engraved by David Wolff, see lot 55 in this sale.
A very rare Dutch stipple-engraved opaque twist 'Friendship' glass by David Wolff, circa 1770The generous round funnel bowl delicately decorated with two smartly dressed boys shaking hands, one raising a half-filled long-stemmed wine glass held in his left hand in a toast, various small trees and shrubs behind, beneath a banderol inscribed 'VRIENDSCHAP', the double-series stem with a pair of opaque white spiral threads around an undulating gauze column, over a conical foot, 16.7cm highFootnotesProvenance Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 1 April 1951, lot 780 With Cecil Davis Jeffrey Rose Collection, Sotheby's, 6 March 1978, lot 62 Stephen Pohlmann Collection Literature Frank Davis, 'Talking about Salerooms', Country Life, Vol.163 (March 1978), p.1062, fig.2 P M Wood, 'Gentlemen - The King', Art and Antiques, Vol.39 (1979), p.23 J A Brooks, The Arthur Negus Guide to British Glass (1981), fig.116 F G A M Smit, Uniquely Dutch Eighteenth-Century Dutch Stipple-Engravings on Glass (1993), p.69, no.Cb.24 Exhibited Circle of Glass Collectors Commemorative Exhibition 1937-1962, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1962, no.306 Exhibition of English Glass, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1968, no.167 Friendship was highly valued in the 18th century and the bond between friends would have been sealed and resealed with toasts from specially engraved goblets such as this. Friendship was often symbolically portrayed, sometimes as putti or cherubs, but more commonly as two boys. As is the case on this particularly finely decorated glass, the majority of boys depicted on Dutch stipple-engraved 'Friendship' glasses are shown with a wine glass, sometimes also shaking hands. Opaque twist glasses with Dutch stipple engraving are rare and this is a particularly unusual choice of glass for Wolff. Only six such glasses engraved by him are recorded by Smit (1993), four of which are of comparable size and form to the present lot with straight double-series stems. They include no.Cb.2, similarly decorated with two boys shaking hands, and no.Ac.19 which is illustrated by Pieter C Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Vol.2 (1995), p.455, no.574. An opaque twist wine glass with a very similar scene and an identical inscription by 'Alius' was in the Kaplan Collection, sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 73. For another 'Friendship' glass engraved by David Wolff, see lot 55 in this sale.
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