Wine glass, Chalice on the wedding of Gerard François Meyners and Margaretha Catharina Sleght, Arched foot. The baluster-shaped trunk has four nodes, a flat node, and two air bubbles, one of which is elongated. The conical cup has a rounded bottom. On the chalice, above a balustrade with a fountain and a water spewing merman, and in front of a crowned anchor with a burning heart and two turtledoves, two interlocking hands. The hands stick out of cuffs that come from two round shields with the family arms of the Rotterdam families Meyners and Sleght, under a radiant sun. On the left of the family arms a seated female figure (Fortuna (?)) With a cornucopia and a palm branch, on the right Mercy with bare breasts, two putti, a torch and a laurel wreath. Below the show, in a symmetrical cartouche, the city coat of arms of Rotterdam and the date DEN XI MEY 1746. On the other side of the glass a garden vase under a canopy with lambrequin. Along the edge of the mouth and the performances there is a band of scrolling and sheet work, shaking hands, 'dextrarum junctio', Gerard François Meyners, Margareta Catharina Sleght, anonymous, 1746, glass, glassblowing, h 21.8 cm × d 9.0 cm d 8.5 cm
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