A Dutch engraved light baluster wine goblet, circa 1750-70


With interesting political and allegorical insignia, the round funnel bowl engraved with symbols of plenty and a royal crown spilling from a cap of liberty, flanked by a water pump and a quill pen, the reverse with a caduceus crossed with a sword and a spade, the light baluster stem with an angular knop over a beaded inverted baluster and a small basal knop, on a wide conical foot, 19.1cm high
|ProvenanceProperty of the Dutch noble family Quarles van Ufford