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roemer

Object NameRoemer with a Scene of Dancing Peasants

Made FromGlass, Metal

Dateabout 1650

Place MadeNetherlands

Techniqueblown, diamond-point engraved, applied decoration

SizeOverall H: 24.1 cm, Diam: 13.4 cm, (rim): 11.1 cm

Accession Number56.3.88

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Wine: Celebration and Ceremony

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

On ViewEuropean Gallery

Physical DescriptionTransparent pale green glass with minute bubbles; blown, diamond-point engraved, with applied, tooled decoration. Cup shape bowl, cylindrical stem, applied spreading foot built up of a spiral thread, high "kick" with pontil mark at base of stem; on the bowl peasant scenes below a wreath of vine branches: smoking and drinking peasants and one peasant woman around a barrel, two pipers and two dancing couples; four rows of raspberry prunts applied to stem, rigaree ring around top of stem. Engraved by "J. M."
Provenance

Source Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne - 1956