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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. This antique glass grape rinser was primarily an aesthetic object, a sign of prosperity and luxury and was often used during formal dinners. Today, these rinsers are used as decorative pieces or collectibles for wine enthusiasts and collectors of antique glasses.
This object is richly decorated with the coat of arms of the Dutch Lion and the inscription V.O.: Vivat Oranje,
There is another reference to the Royal House, a basket containing a tree with the Apples of Orange.
In the bottom of the glass is an open space, in which a coin is placed. This coin is dated 1787 and has the text: Stad Utrecht. On the other side of the coin is the coat of arms of the city of Utrecht. 67281479