Plaque
Also titled Plaat
c. 1715 - c. 1720
- Medium
- earthenware, tin glaze, faience
- Classification
- plaat
- Dimensions
- height 2.5 cm x length 58.5 cm x width 47.5 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 plaque probably served as the – delicate – top of a tea table. It is appropriately decorated with four scenes of groups of people drinking. Besides tea, they are consuming coffee and wine. The coat of arms, featuring a tree, might be a reference to the name of the factory owner, Francina van Eijck (whose surname means ‘oak’ in Dutch).
