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Pair of casters
Also titled Paar strooibussen
Dirk Evert Grave (Amsterdam, 1735–1795)
1778
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- strooibus
- Dimensions
- height 23.1 cm x diameter 8.2 cm x weight 484 g
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
The shape and decoration of these sugar casters are derived from Classical antiquity. The holes through which the sugar was sprinkled are cleverly incorporated in the ornamentation of the cap. The sugar was sprinkled over fruit and desserts.
