Dice glass
Also titled Dobbelglas
c. 1580 - c. 1590
- Medium
- silver (metal), glass
- Classification
- dobbelglas
- Dimensions
- diameter 6.1 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of J.R. Ritman, Amsterdam
- 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
Instead of a foot, this glass has a mounted silver sphere containing a dice. The glass was used in a drinking game, in which it had to be emptied the number of times indicated on the dice. The engraving on the bowl was done with a diamondtipped stylus. It is one of the earliest instances of the use of this originally Venetian technique in the Netherlands.
