Wine fountain and cooler
Also titled Fontein en koelvat
Alger Mensma (Leeuwarden, 1682–na 1)
1731
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- wine cooler
- Dimensions
- height 23 cm x width 43.4 cm x depth 35.7 cm x weight 4520 g
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of O.J. van Diggelen-Portheine, Piedmont
- 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
The wine fountain and the cooler, used to rinse one’s hands and wine glasses, formed the decorative centrepiece of a lavish buffet. These were presented to Cornelis Schrijver in gratitude for his heroic naval deeds, alluded to by the reliefs with trophies of arms, fish, shells and sea gods.
