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Pair of marriage goblets with lids
Also titled Paar huwelijksbokalen met deksels
1759
- Medium
- glass
- Classification
- lid
- Dimensions
- height 32.5 cm x diameter 11 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
These goblets commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Jan Jacob van Westrenen and Johanna Catharina Mamuchet van Houdringe. The arms were executed with a diamond-point stylus, a small diamond chip in a holder used to incise the glass. This technique was common in the Netherlands in the 17th century. Translation of inscription A: Best wishes and good cheer oh Noble couple on your Fiftieth Wedding Year. Translation of inscription B: Despite the burden of so many years,
