Wine Glass
early 18th century (made), 1748 (engraved)
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The glass shows an orange tree in a pot and the inscription 'Vive Orange', long live (the house of) Orange. The engraving celebrates the birth of the Dutch Prince William V of Orange, represented by the shoot coming from the base of the orange tree. William was born in 1748, the year that Van Borckeloo engraved and dated the glass.
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.
This glass is only one of three known signed glasses by the Utrecht engraver Thomas van Borckeloo. In this case Van Borckeloo used an English glass which was made about 30 years before he engraved it.
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.
This glass is only one of three known signed glasses by the Utrecht engraver Thomas van Borckeloo. In this case Van Borckeloo used an English glass which was made about 30 years before he engraved it.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Diamond-point engraved glass |
| Brief description | Wine glass, engraved in Utrecht with inscription 'Vive Orange', The Netherlands, the glass English, engraved by Thomas van Borckeloo, dated 1748 |
| Physical description | Small lead-glass goblet with mushroom-shaped baluster stem. Diamond-point engraved with an orange tree in a pot and the inscription Vive Orange. Dated 1748 and signed by Thomas van Borckeloo. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed 'Vive Orange'; signed 'T: VF[?]: Borckeloo.1748' (Decoration; Signature)
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| Credit line | Given by R.W. Morris |
| Production | the engraving dated 1748 |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | The glass shows an orange tree in a pot and the inscription 'Vive Orange', long live (the house of) Orange. The engraving celebrates the birth of the Dutch Prince William V of Orange, represented by the shoot coming from the base of the orange tree. William was born in 1748, the year that Van Borckeloo engraved and dated the glass. 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. This glass is only one of three known signed glasses by the Utrecht engraver Thomas van Borckeloo. In this case Van Borckeloo used an English glass which was made about 30 years before he engraved it. |
| Bibliographic reference | Another signed glass by Van Borckeloo, dated 1732, is in the Gemeentemuseum The Hague, see: Jet Pijzel-Dommisse and Titus Eliens, Glinsterend Glass, 1500 jaar Europese glaskunst: De collectie van het Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Zwolle, Den Haag, 2009, pp. 175-176, cat. 286 |
| Other number | 8808 - Glass gallery number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.163-1956 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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