Roemer with a Scene of Dancing Peasants

Object Name: 
Roemer with a Scene of Dancing Peasants

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Object Name: 
Roemer with a Scene of Dancing Peasants
Place Made: 
Netherlands
Accession Number: 
56.3.88
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 24.1 cm, Diam: 13.4 cm, (rim): 11.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1650
Primary Description: 
Transparent 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."

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Source
1956
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
pale green
Technique: 
applied decoration
glassblowing
diamond-point engraving
hot-working
Material: 
glass
metal

Exhibitions (2)

Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in 17th Century Dutch Art and Life
Venue(s)
Albany Institute of History and Art 2002-09-10 through 2002-12
Wine: Celebration and Ceremony
Venue(s)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 1985-06-04 through 1985-10-13
 

Publications (4)

Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999) illustrated, p. 34; BIB# 63967
Wine: Celebration and Ceremony (1985) illustrated, pp. 112; 113; BIB# 22968
Treasures in Glass (1966) illustrated, pp. 36-36, #51; BIB# 28036
Funf Westdeutsche Nachlasse, Deutscher und Auslandischer Kunstbesitz, (catalogue #446) (1956-11-14) #672, pl. 47; BIB# 9854