Nautilus cup
Also titled Nautilusbeker
c. 1600
- Medium
- nautilus shell, amethyst (mineral), silver (metal)
- Classification
- nautilus shell cup
- Dimensions
- height 42.4 cm x width 19.7 cm x depth 11.5 cm
- 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
This nautilus shell has been cleverly used to represent the body of a realistically rendered ostrich. Ever since Classical antiquity this bird has been a symbol of virtue. Even though it cannot fly, it surpasses all other twolegged creatures in the speed with which it can run. Virtue thus always triumphs.
