wine glass
Object NameWineglass
Maker
David Wolff
Made FromLead Glass
Dateabout 1795
Place MadeEngland (glass); Netherlands (engraved)
Techniqueblown, cut, stipple-engraved
SizeH: 14 cm; D(rim): 6.6 cm, (foot): 7.8 cm
Accession Number79.3.236
Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
One Dot at a Time
Not On View
Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass; blown, cut, stipple-engraved. Ovoid bowl, with diamond-stipple decoration of a soldier, carrying a sword, greeting an older soldier, seated, at a liberty pole; signed below in stipple "D: Wolff 17 218 95" and inscribed at the bottom, right "Het Eerste Jaar der Bataafsche vryheid." and (on the reverse) the inscription (stipple, block-letters) "VRYHEID GELYKHEID BROEDERSCHAP/'T HEIL DER BEIDE NAATIEN/REIST!BATAVIER! ONS'HULP,/RUKT' U!UIT. SALVERNY:/GY!ZYT TANS VRY MET ONS:/EEN VRYIEN HOED,MAAKT BLEI."; panel-cut drawn stem; conical foot with rough pontil mark.Provenance
Former Collection
Viktor Schick
Source
Jerome Strauss
(1893-1978)
about 1730-1760
1780-1790
