An exceptional engraved light baluster wine glass signed by Jacob Sang dated 1760The round funnel bowl exquisitely engraved with a three-masted 24-gun ship in full sail on a neatly undulating sea, the reverse with a farmer in a handsome overcoat driving a horse-drawn plough across a grassy sward, inscribed 'AU BIEN DELA PATRIE' (To the Prosperity of the Country), on a stem with an upper angular knop above a slender beaded inverted baluster with a small basal knop, the conical foot inscribed 'Jacob Sang, inv = et Fec = Amsterdam, 1760' in diamond-point script, 19.3cm highFootnotesProvenance Van Solkema Collection, The Hague, Netherlands Mak van Waay Amsterdam, 10 December 1974, lot 2098 With Frides Laméris, 17 April 2012 Stephen Pohlmann Collection Literature Anna Laméris, Pur Sang: Een onderzoek naar de kenmerken van de stijl van Jacob Sang aan de hand van zijn gesigneerde glazen, unpublished PhD thesis, Kunsthistorisch Instituut Amsterdam (1994), no.1760.11 F G A M Smit, A concise catalogue of eighteenth-century wine-glasses wheel-engraved and signed by Jacob Sang (1992), p.14, no.1760.11 A ploughing farmer in conjunction with one or more ships is a design found on at six glasses signed by Jacob Sang including the present lot, with the sailing ship being a particularly popular motif symbolic of the Dutch Republic, see Anna Laméris, 'Ships on Glass', in Frides Laméris, Canes, Serpents and Ships (2018), p.57. Three further glasses with related scenes are recorded by Smit (1992), nos.1757.2, 1760.12 and 1760.13, the latter illustrated by Pieter C Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Vol.2 (1995), p.200, no.212. A fifth, dated 1762, was sold by Sotheby's on 15 September 1992, lot 90 and is recorded by Laméris (1994), no.1762.7. A sixth, dated 1760, was sold by Christie's Amsterdam on 27 June 2000, lot 96 and appears unrecorded in the literature. All of these glasses are of virtually identical size and form to the present lot, employing a stem type much favoured by Sang, with inscriptions in Dutch all alluding in some way to the prosperity of the Country. A French inscription sets the present lot apart but is not unusual considering that French was the lingua franca of the Netherlands spoken by the aristocracy in the 18th century. Only the example dated 1760, formerly in the Guépin Collection (no.1760.12) sold by Christie's Amsterdam, 5 July 1989, lot 125, together with that dated 1762 (no.1762.7) bear scenes of virtually identical composition to that on the present lot. The others differ in the additional inclusion of either distant buildings (no.1757.2) or a view of the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam (no.1760.13 and unrecorded).
An exceptional engraved light baluster wine glass signed by Jacob Sang dated 1760The round funnel bowl exquisitely engraved with a three-masted 24-gun ship in full sail on a neatly undulating sea, the reverse with a farmer in a handsome overcoat driving a horse-drawn plough across a grassy sward, inscribed 'AU BIEN DELA PATRIE' (To the Prosperity of the Country), on a stem with an upper angular knop above a slender beaded inverted baluster with a small basal knop, the conical foot inscribed 'Jacob Sang, inv = et Fec = Amsterdam, 1760' in diamond-point script, 19.3cm highFootnotesProvenance Van Solkema Collection, The Hague, Netherlands Mak van Waay Amsterdam, 10 December 1974, lot 2098 With Frides Laméris, 17 April 2012 Stephen Pohlmann Collection Literature Anna Laméris, Pur Sang: Een onderzoek naar de kenmerken van de stijl van Jacob Sang aan de hand van zijn gesigneerde glazen, unpublished PhD thesis, Kunsthistorisch Instituut Amsterdam (1994), no.1760.11 F G A M Smit, A concise catalogue of eighteenth-century wine-glasses wheel-engraved and signed by Jacob Sang (1992), p.14, no.1760.11 A ploughing farmer in conjunction with one or more ships is a design found on at six glasses signed by Jacob Sang including the present lot, with the sailing ship being a particularly popular motif symbolic of the Dutch Republic, see Anna Laméris, 'Ships on Glass', in Frides Laméris, Canes, Serpents and Ships (2018), p.57. Three further glasses with related scenes are recorded by Smit (1992), nos.1757.2, 1760.12 and 1760.13, the latter illustrated by Pieter C Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Vol.2 (1995), p.200, no.212. A fifth, dated 1762, was sold by Sotheby's on 15 September 1992, lot 90 and is recorded by Laméris (1994), no.1762.7. A sixth, dated 1760, was sold by Christie's Amsterdam on 27 June 2000, lot 96 and appears unrecorded in the literature. All of these glasses are of virtually identical size and form to the present lot, employing a stem type much favoured by Sang, with inscriptions in Dutch all alluding in some way to the prosperity of the Country. A French inscription sets the present lot apart but is not unusual considering that French was the lingua franca of the Netherlands spoken by the aristocracy in the 18th century. Only the example dated 1760, formerly in the Guépin Collection (no.1760.12) sold by Christie's Amsterdam, 5 July 1989, lot 125, together with that dated 1762 (no.1762.7) bear scenes of virtually identical composition to that on the present lot. The others differ in the additional inclusion of either distant buildings (no.1757.2) or a view of the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam (no.1760.13 and unrecorded).
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