Bell
1575-1600 (made)
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This bell-shaped goblet was designed to be used for special toasts. After emptying its contents, the drinker would turn the glass upside-down to ring the bell. The original bell-clapper is missing, but there is an additional bell incorporated in the mount. The shells from the coat of arms are repeated in the gilding on the glass.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Glass, with applied moulded decoration and gilt, opaque turquoise details, and silver gilt mount |
| Brief description | Bell, blown glass, Southern Netherlands, 1575-1600 |
| Physical description | Table bell drinkglass, two smooth, applied glass threads around the bowl and one around the rim. The upper part of the body of the bell has three applied moulded masks and three small prunts with a turquise centre. The finial is mounted with a gilt silver bell. The gilt decoration on the bell included three pecten shells, around the mall prunts. Therse three shells are repeated on the engraved arms on the silver bell. |
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| Gallery label | The coat of arms on the mount is that of the Van der Eyken family, seated near Antwerp in the 16th century. The shells from the coat of arms are repeated in the gilding on the glass. |
| Credit line | Wilfred Buckley Collection |
| Object history | The coat of arms on the mount is that of the Meys (Meijs) family, who lived in the area of Liege and Maastricht during the late 16th and 17th centuries. |
| Production | cf. masks with c. 209-1936 mount shows coat of arms with three shells, also shells in gilt decoration. cf. R. Chambon 1955, Pl. VII, 26 (= very similar bell) and Pl. X, 38 (+Berkemeyer with similar masks, with diamond-engraving dated 1592) Similar bell sold Christie's London, 9-7-1997, lot 460 (of same size = 19 cm.) |
| Summary | This bell-shaped goblet was designed to be used for special toasts. After emptying its contents, the drinker would turn the glass upside-down to ring the bell. The original bell-clapper is missing, but there is an additional bell incorporated in the mount. The shells from the coat of arms are repeated in the gilding on the glass. |
| Bibliographic reference | cf. very similar piece in Rijksmuseum, cat. 99 seems exactly the same apart from gilding and mount. |
| Other number | 8464 - Glass gallery number |
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| Accession number | C.218-1936 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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