A fine Dutch engraved wine goblet attributed to Jacob Sang, circa 1760


The generous round funnel bowl engraved with a four-story town-house, on the roof of which rests a cornucopia of Plenty, the neatly-tiled pavement beneath the house flanked by palm fronds, the inscription above T'WELVAAREN, VAN DEEZEN HUYZE,, on a light baluster stem including a beaded ball knop, above a wide conical foot, 30cm high
|ProvenanceProperty of the Dutch noble family Quarles van UffordAnna Lameris records another goblet signed by Sang in 1759 with the same inscription Het Welvaren van deesen Huyse and a related subject of a Cupid holding a cornucopia over a house, see her paper 'Pur Sang. Een onderzoek naar de kenmerken van de stijl van Jacob Sang aan de hand van zijn gesigneered glazen', published in 1994 by the Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Amsterdam, p.27 and fig. 1759.3.