Dish

anonymous, c. 1675 - c. 1685

The inscription translates as: ‘Foresight accompanied by wise counsel form robust pillars of the State’.

  • Artwork typeplatter
  • Object numberBK-NM-762
  • Dimensionsheight 3.6 cm x diameter 31.3 cm
  • Physical characteristicshelder, kleurloos glas met diamantgravure

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Dish

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-NM-762

  • Description

    Ronde schotel met brede rand, waarvan het randje is omgeslagen en waarop in Italiaanse letters is gecalligraveerd 'Voorsicht verselt met wijs beraed, Zijn hegte zuilen van den Staet'.

Creation

  • Creation

    • glassblower: anonymous, Low Countries
    • glass carver: Willem Jacobszoon van Heemskerk, Leiden

  • Dating

    c. 1675 - c. 1685

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    helder, kleurloos glas met diamantgravure

  • Dimensions

    height 3.6 cm x diameter 31.3 cm

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Acquisition and rights

Documentation

    • F.G.A.M. Smit, Inscriptions in Calligraphy on Glass, Uniquely Dutch, Seventeenth-Century Calligraphy on Glass, A preliminary Catalogue, Peterborough 1989, p. 125, cat.nr. V32.
    • J.G. van Gelder, 'Willem Jacobsz. van Heemskerk, Glasgraveur', Oud-Holland 57 (1940), p. 189.
    • M.A. Heukensfeldt-Jansen, 'Willem Jacobsz. van Heemskerk, Glasgraveur', Oud-Holland 60 (1943), p. 31.

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