Jacob Sang – Al Wat Ons Lief Is

The Netherlands
Circa 1760
Attributed to Jacob Sang

The round funnel bowl with a continuous scene of a lady standing on a paved floor, holding a child in her arms and another by the hand, a collared hound standing upon a metal-bound strongbox to her left, and a horse to her right, the reverse with a large bouquet of flowers in a vase, the rim inscribed ‘AL WAT ONS LIEF IS’ (Everything Which is Dear to Us), set upon a multi-spiral airtwist section with an angular knob, over a plain beaded inverted baluster with basal knop, on a conical foot.

An identical glass with the same inscription and engraving signed and dated ‘Jacob Sang, fec. Amsterdam, 1761’ in diamond-point to the foot is illustrated by C R S Sheppard and J P Smith, Glass from the Restoration to the Regency (1990), pp.60-1, no.85. They note two other glasses with the same subject, both of which are unsigned, of which this glass likely is that one.

In an overall good condition but has two glued breaks, one just underneath the bowl and one above the foot. Further with the normal wear underneath the foot rim.