Live Auction 14963THE COLLECTOR: English and European Furniture, Works of Art & Ceramics & Silver
A DUTCH DOCUMENTARY STIPPLE-ENGRAVED GLASS GOBLET
Lot 664 PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF DR. ANTON C.R. DREESMANN

A DUTCH DOCUMENTARY STIPPLE-ENGRAVED GLASS GOBLET

SIGNED AND DATED F.(RANS) GREENWOOD FECIT 1742, THE FOOT LATER

Closed18 October 2017

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A DUTCH DOCUMENTARY STIPPLE-ENGRAVED GLASS GOBLET
SIGNED AND DATED F.(RANS) GREENWOOD FECIT 1742, THE FOOT LATER
The round-funnel bowl stipple-engraved with a half-length portrait of a herring seller holding a half-full 'roemer' in her left hand and a herring by its tail in her right hand, a rug under her right elbow, in an arched window flanked by fruiting vines, the stem with an inverted baluster section above a knob, the foot a later replacement
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) high

Specialist note

Frans Greenwood (1680-1761) was a glass engraver and poet in Dordrecht who pioneered the diamond stipple technique, creating beautifully delicate works capturing sitters in intimate portraits or as allegorized figures. This method allowed for an incredible sense of spatial depth, as is seen in the present lot. Similar examples of his work can be seen in an engraved portrait of Flora on a goblet of 1728 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and a male portrait on a goblet of the same year in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.