Wine glass with a company at a table

anonymous, 1759

Jacob Sang, originally from Erfurt, was the most important glass-engraver working in Amsterdam in the mid-18th century. The high quality of his wheel-engravings is evident in the wealth of details, such as the pipes on the table and the earrings worn by the lady at centre. The glass was used to toast to friendship, as the people depicted on the vessel are doing. Translation of inscription: He who excludes friendship from this Life / Banishes the sun from the world.

  • Artwork typekelkglas
  • Object numberBK-NM-10754-206
  • Dimensionsheight 18.8 cm x width 7.8 cm
  • Physical characteristicshelder, kleurloos glas met radgravure

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Wine glass with a company at a table

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-NM-10754-206

  • Description

    Gewelfde voet. Balusterstam met knopen en luchtbellen. Op de klokvormige kelk een gezelschap aan een tafel waarboven: Die vriendschap uit dit Leeve sluit // Die bandt de zon de wereldt uit. Op de voet geëtst: J.Sang Fec. Amsterdam 1759.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    inscription: ‘Die vriendschap uit dit Leeve sluit / Die bandt de zon de wereldt uit’

Creation

  • Creation

    • glassblower: anonymous, Low Countries
    • glassblower: anonymous, England
    • glass carver: Simon Jacob Sang, Amsterdam

  • Dating

    1759

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    helder, kleurloos glas met radgravure

  • Dimensions

    height 18.8 cm x width 7.8 cm

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    A.J. Enschedé Bequest, Haarlem

  • Acquisition

    bequest 1896

  • Copyright

    Public domain

Documentation

    • G.E. Pazaurek, 'Die Glasschneider-familie Sang', Der Kunstwanderer 12 (1930), p. 436, afb. 12.
    • L.F. Fuchs, 'Jacob Sang, Ein holländischer Glasschneider deutscher Nation', Weltkunst 24 (1954), p. 3.
    • F.G.A.M. Smit, A concise Catalogue of Eighteenth-Century Wine-Glasses, Wheel-engraved and signed by Jacob Sang, Peterborough 1992, nr. 1759.7.
    • H.E. van Gelder, 'Achttiende-eeuwse Glassnijders in Holland I', Oud-Holland 73 (1958), p. 16.
    • A. Laméris, Pur Sang, Een onderzoek naar kenmerken van de stijl van Jacob Sang aan de hand van zijn gesigneerde werken, typoscript Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1994, p. 33, 65-66.

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