Lidded goblet and Table Bell
Also titled Bokaal en tafelbel
Johannes Mattheus van Kempen (1814–1877)
1851
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- goblet
- Dimensions
- diameter 8.8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Jaffé-Pierson Stichting and the Rijksmuseum Fonds
- 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
When producing work for the World Fairs, Van Kempen called on leading designers capable of creating consistent designs in historical styles. An example is the goblet from 1851, modelled on the Renaissance. The style of the company’s customary products, such as the table bell, for which Van Kempen combined various sources of inspiration, was much less pronounced. Its angular shapes reference the Baroque, the engraved asymmetrical decoration the Rococo.
