A valuation day find for Kingham & Orme (20% buyer’s premium), this Dutch-engraved East India Company baluster goblet c.1760, took a multi-estimate £7500 in Evesham on July 28.
The form, with its complex knopped stem and elegant large bowl, is commonly known as the Newcastle light baluster. However, it is now thought likely that the VOC glasses, engraved for Dutch dignitaries and investors in the world’s first multinational corporation (and the first to issue stock), were also produced in Continental glassmaking centres such as Amsterdam or Antwerp.