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On display at V&A South Kensington
Glass, Room 131

Wine Glass

1689 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Wine glass (Roemer), engraved by Willem Mooleyser, Rotterdam, Netherlands, dated 1689


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Diamond-engraved glass, with applied prunts
Brief description
Wine glass (Roemer), engraved by Willem Mooleyser, Rotterdam, Netherlands, dated 1689
Dimensions
  • Height: 28.5cm
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
Signed 'W. M.', dated '4m. 19dach 1689' (19th April 1689) and inscribed 'T'Welvaren Vant Lieve Vaderlandt 1689' and 'Concordia Res Parvae crescunt' (Unity makes the weak powerful) (diamond-engraved) (Signature; date; decoration)
Gallery label
Engraved with the Arms of the Dutch Republic, the Seven United Provinces, and William and Mary of Orange. Below the shields are numbers of the towns and villages of the provinces.
Credit line
Wilfred Buckley Collection
Production
Cf. A roemer an even larger Roemer with the arms of William III; the Dutch Republic; The Dutch Admiralty; Holland; Schiedam and the Van der Goes family and monogramme: 'WM 1692/4Maent/28dagh Rotter/dam' (Cat. Met rad en diamant 1989, nr. 89
Subject depicted
Associations
Other number
9855 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Accession number
C.297-1936

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
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