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Table ornament
Also titled Tafelstuk
Wenzel Jamnitzer (Vienna, 1508–1585)
1549
- Medium
- silver (metal), email
- Classification
- table piece
- Dimensions
- height 99.8 cm x diameter 46 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This table ornament is an ode to the Earth and all that it brings forth, as well as an unsurpassed display of artistic and technical skill. The stem of the dish represents Mother Earth. She is surrounded by flowers, herbs and small animals – all cast from specimens collected in the wild. The lives of actual animals were sacrificed to model the young grass snakes and lizards.
