Live Auction 2835European Noble and Private Collections
A Dutch stipple-engraved airtwist goblet
Lot 293 FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE CAREL COUNT VAN LYNDEN VAN HOEVELAKEN (LOTS 293-297)

A Dutch stipple-engraved airtwist goblet

ATTRIBUTED DAVID WOLFF, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Closed16 December 2009

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A Dutch stipple-engraved airtwist goblet
Attributed David Wolff, third quarter 18th Century
Decorated to the funnel bowl with two putti beside a bird-cage with its door open, the escaped bird perched on top, below the text AUREA LIBERTAS, minor frit
16.9 cm. high

Collection Carel Count van Lynden van Hoevelaken and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

A bird-cage with an open door symbolises freedom. For a goblet with a similar decoration see P.C. Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Volume II, p. 430, ill. 544.