Roemer (Drinking Vessel)

Germany, or the Low Countries (The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg)

mid to late 17th century

  • Titles Roemer (Drinking Vessel) (Proper)
  • Medium blown glass
  • Dimensions 5 5/16 x 2 5/8 in. Diam. (13.5 x 6.7 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by the Ehney Addison Camp Foundation, 2004.41
  • Work Type vessel
  • Classification Containers
  • On View

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Figure of Harlequin seated on a white tree stump on small base, his left leg resting on side of stump while his right leg rests on the ground, his right arm is outstretched and he holds his upturned gray hat in his hand, in his left hand he holds a white and gilt open tankard, which rests on his upper thigh, this with the date "1740" in gold; he wears trousers in a checkered pattern in lilac, green, and black, and red shoes with blue bows, his tunic is incised in a checkered pattern, which the painter did not follow exactly, and is painted in red, yellow, and white with gilt buttons, he wears a half mask covering his upper face
A Parian plaque, or tile, with a dark blue-green, glazed ground with white pâte-sur-pâte decoration depicting a nymph wearing a diaphanous robe, holding a protesting cherub in the scale-patterned basin of a columnar fountain with her left hand and wielding a scrubbing brush in her raised right hand, behind her are three additional cherubs suspended from a line on which they have been hung out to dry.
Horizontal oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief figure of a child sitting by a basket of fruit, set in brass frame with ring