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‘Hansel in the Cellar’
Also titled Hansje-in-de-kelder
Focko Raerda (Groningen (province), ca. –in o)
1669 - 1670
- Medium
- gilding (material), silver (metal)
- Classification
- Hansje in de kelder
- Dimensions
- height 22.5 cm x diameter 14.4 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap
- 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
‘Hansken is in de kelder’ (Hansel is in the cellar) can be read on the shield of the knight in the middle of the dish. Beneath the knight’s feet is an opening. When the dish is filled with drink, Hansel – a tiny baby – rises up. In the 17th century wealthy people used such dishes to announce the forthcoming birth of a child to their friends and family.
