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Wine glass
Borckeloo, Thomas van - Enlarge image
Wine glass
- Place of origin:
England, Great Britain (made)
Holland (north, engraved) - Date:
early 18th century (made)
1748 (engraved) - Artist/Maker:
Borckeloo, Thomas van (engraver (inciser))
- Materials and Techniques:
Diamond-point engraved glass
- Credit Line:
Given by R. W. Morris
- Museum number:
C.163-1956
- Gallery location:
Glass, room 131, case 16, shelf 3
Special drinking glasses with commemorative inscriptions were particularly popular in Holland in the 18th century. Both amateur and professional diamond-point engravers worked on local as well as imported glasses. They mostly made these glasses as one-off pieces for special occasions and often dated them and marked them with their signature. Here the amateur engraver Thomas van Borckeloo used an older English glass. His engraving of an orange tree sprouting a shoot, and the inscription 'Vive Orange' (long live Orange), express his support of the Dutch Royal Family.
