Beker
Also titled Goblet
Frans Zwollo (I) (Amsterdam, 1872–1945)
1902-01-07
- Medium
- copper (metal)
- Classification
- cup
- Dimensions
- height 9.2 cm x diameter 6.7 cm x weight 179 g
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- C.H. le Nobel-Mekkink Bequest
- 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
The Amsterdam glass painter Jacques Willem Le Nobel ordered this goblet for his seven-year-old son Jan. The child had taken his first steps in the Theosophical Movement in 1902, in which both his father and Zwollo were involved. Zwollo described the goblet as a ‘receiving vessel of Divine Wisdom and Love.’ The movement’s symbol is engraved on the bottom.
