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Object NameRoemer with Sepia (Schwarzlot) Decoration

Made FromGlass, Enamel

Dateabout 1670-1729

Place Madeprobably Netherlands

TechniqueFree-blown, applied, enameled

SizeOverall H: 12.8 cm; Rim Diam (max): 12.3 cm; Foot Diam (max): 8.5 cm

Accession Number50.3.113

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in 17th Century Dutch Art and Life

Liquid Refreshment: 2000 Years of Drinks and Drinking Glasses

The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from The Corning Museum of Glass

On ViewEuropean Gallery

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

The scene probably illustrates an account of the second-century Greek author Lucian: Mercury rescued the infant Bacchus and carried him to the nymphs of Nisa, who raised him.

Physical DescriptionRoemer with Sepia (Schwarzlot) Decoration. Clear green glass; free-blown, applied decoration, and enameled. Circular bowl with curved sides flaring from wide cylindrical "stem" with conical kick-up in bottom, applied sloping ringed foot built up from a thread of glass; applied thin oval bosses on stem and single thread at top; enameled in wash-drawing style around lower side of bowl: "satyrs" and "nymphs" or maenads in a bacchanalian vintage scene, and a central group depicting Mercury (Hermes) and a "satyr" holding the young or infant Bacchus (Dionysus) whose extended right hand is clasped in that of a nymph.
Provenance

Source Blumka Gallery - 1951-01-19

Former Collection Frederick Neuberg