Lidded ewer
Also titled Kan met deksel
Adam van Vianen (I) (Utrecht, 1568–1627)
1614
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- ewer
- Dimensions
- height 25 cm x width 14 cm x depth 9 cm x weight 910 g
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Prins Bernhard Fonds, the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
On this ewer everything is in motion. Animal and human forms emerge from a viscous mass. It is possible that it represents the primordial soup (prima matera) from which life arose according to alchemists. On the inside are two crawling salamanders or lizards: animals that were also thought to originate from non-living matter. Does the ewer establish a link between the creative power of the artist and that of nature?
