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Wine glass with a company at a table
Also titled Wijnglas met een gezelschap aan een tafel
1759
- Medium
- glass
- Classification
- kelkglas
- Dimensions
- height 18.8 cm x width 7.8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- A.J. Enschedé Bequest, Haarlem
- 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
Jacob Sang, originally from Erfurt, was the most important glass-engraver working in Amsterdam in the mid-18th century. The high quality of his wheel-engravings is evident in the wealth of details, such as the pipes on the table and the earrings worn by the lady at centre. The glass was used to toast to friendship, as the people depicted on the vessel are doing. Translation of inscription: He who excludes friendship from this Life / Banishes the sun from the world.
