Two goblets
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As the inscription testifies, these goblets celebrate fifty years of marriage of the Utrecht regent Jan Jacob van Westreenen, Lord of Lauwendrecht and Catharina Mamochet, Lady of Hoedringen. Their golden wedding anniversary fell on 25 August 1759. The date appears in the inscription on the right goblet, the capitals in the motto 'Geluk ô eDeL paar Met 't Vyftigst huwLYK Jaar' forming a chronogram. These glass goblets may have been blown in the Southern Netherlands where a flourishing glass industry existed around Liège and Namur. But who engraved the two goblets remains unknown.