Lot 152
LARGE DUTCH WHEEL-ENGRAVED ARMORIAL GLASS GOBLET
MID 18TH CENTURY
Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art from 1600 | 571
Auction: 4 September 2019 at 11:00 BST
Description
the flared bowl engraved with the abbreviated Spanish Royal Arms, quarterly Castile and León, inescutcheon Bourbon, and the Order of the Golden Fleece, the base of the bowl facet-cut, raised on a knopped teared faceted stem and domed conical folded foot
Dimensions
22.5cm high
Footnote
Note:
The armorial bearings are the lesser or abbreviated Royal Arms of the Kingdom of Spain.
These arms probably refer to King Charles III of Spain (1716 -1788). He was the fifth son of King Philip V of Spain, and the eldest son of Philip's second wife, Elisabeth Farnese. Upon the death of his granduncle Antonio Farnese in 1731, Charles became Charles I, Duke of Parma and Piacenza. He married Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony (1724-1760) in 1738, the daughter of King Augustus III of Poland and his wife, Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria. During their marriage Charles and Maria had thirteen children, eight of whom survived into adulthood. He ascended to the Spanish throne in 1759 upon the death of his half-brother, King Ferdinand IV.