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Lot 36: A RARE DUTCH SILVER BEAKER, HIDSERT JANS LAUSWOLT, HEERENVEEN, 1671

Est: $15,000 USD - $20,000 USD
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USMarch 16, 2011

Item Overview

Description

A RARE DUTCH SILVER BEAKER, HIDSERT JANS LAUSWOLT, HEERENVEEN, 1671 engraved with strapwork and personifications of Faith and Hope and a coat-of-arms with initials BB and BC within scrolling cartouches, below engraved with birds surrounded by foliage, the interior applied with five knobs, with an inventory number 2243, fully marked below height 19.9 cm., weight 488 gr.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

The beaker was on display at the exhibition Friesch Zilver in the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, in 1927.

Literature

Exh. Cat., Zilver tentoonstelling Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, 1935, p. 9, no. 7
E. Voet, Merken van Friesche goud- en zilversmeden, The Hague, 1932, p. 271, no. 494
E. Voet, A. Wassenbergh, Merken van Friesche goud- en zilversmeden, The Hague, 1974, p. 281, no. 640.
Peter Schoen, Heerenveens Zilver, 1616-1813, Heerenveen, 2002, p. 49, no 17.

Provenance

Bought from Castel Heeswijk, 1900
HM Koningin Emma (1858-1934)
Thence by descent

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