Roemer
Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher (Amsterdam, 1594–1649)
c. 1625 - c. 1650
- Medium
- glass
- Classification
- roemer
- Dimensions
- diameter 10 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
A roemer is a wine glass. It has a taller, more slender stem than a Berkemeyer, and a convex bowl. Large examples were passed from person to person when a toast was drunk. The Latin inscription on this glass is derived from the Roman poet Terence and roughly translates as: ‘This is how I treat my friends’. In other words: I share a glass with those I consider to be friends.
