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Kandeel Cups

1762 (made)
Artist/Maker
Sang, Jacob (engraver)
Place of origin
Amsterdam (decorated)

Confinement cups were presented to mothers at the end of their confinement after giving birth. They were made for serving kandeel, a mixture of wine, yolks, sugar, cinnamon, cloves and lemon peel, and are engraved with toasts to the welfare of the mother and child. The one toasting the mother is engraved with an interior showing a pair of kandeel-glasses set on a table. Each inscribed "Jacob Sang, inv = et Fec = Amsterdam 1762" Also inscribed with "HET WELSYN. VAN DE JONG. GEBOORENE (The well-being of the newborn baby).


Object details

Category
ELISE
Object type
Kandeel cups
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Glass
  • Cover
Materials and techniques
Wheel-engraved glass
Glass
Wheel-Engraving
Glass-Blowing
Brief description
One of pair of confinement cups and covers, engraved by Jacob Sang, Amsterdam, 1762
Physical description
Confinement cups were presented to mothers at the end of their confinement after giving birth. They were made for serving kandeel, a mixture of wine, yolks, sugar, cinnamon, cloves and lemon peel, and are engraved with toasts to the welfare of the mother and child. The one toasting the mother is engraved with an interior showing a pair of kandeel-glasses set on a table. Each inscribed "Jacob Sang, inv = et Fec = Amsterdam 1762" Also inscribed with "HET WELSYN. VAN DE JONG. GEBOORENE (The well-being of the newborn baby).
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.6cm
Credit line
Wilfred Buckley Collection
Object history
Confinement cups were presented to mothers at the end of their confinement after giving birth. They were made for serving kandeel, a mixture of wine, yolks, sugar, cinnamon, cloves and lemon peel, and are engraved with toasts to the welfare of the mother and child. Wilfred Buckley Collection
Production
Northern Netherlands
dated 1762
Associated object
C.465-1936 (Set)
Bibliographic references
  • Buckley, Wilfred. The Art of Glass, London, The Phaidon Press, George Allen & Unwin, 1939. Illus. plate 152, cat. 411, 273 p.
  • Laméris, Anna. Pur Sang. Annales du 13e Congrès de l'Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre. 1996, Lochem, The Netherlands, pp. 463-470. Jacob Sang is thought to have been born in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia in Central Germany, and died in Nigtevegt near Amsterdam in 1786. The first signed glasses known by him are dated 1752. The last known reference to Sang was in the newspaper, the Amsterdamsche Courant,1st September 1785, when he advertised the contents of his shop for sale.
Other number
8856 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.466&A-1936

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Record createdMarch 27, 2000
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