Beaker
1600-1680 (made)
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This type of beaker was commonly used for beer. It was particularly popular in the Netherlands. Beakers of this shape were produced in different techniques and with different decorative details. This beaker is made of filigree glass in three colours. This involves picking up prefabricated opaque white and coloured canes onto a bubble of hot, colourless glass. This can then be further inflated and manipulated. Twisting the top and bottom of the bubble in opposite directions creates the spiral effect we can see on our glass. Fragments of this type of multi-coloured beaker have been excavated at the site of a 17th-century Amsterdam glasshouse, but they were probably also imported from Antwerp and Middelburg.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Filigree glass (a fili) in red, blue and white |
| Brief description | Beaker, Northern Netherlands (possibly Amsterdam), 1600-1680 |
| Physical description | Conical colourless glass beaker with incorporated filigree canes in opaque white, red and blue glass, spirally twisted. Around the bottom a milled colourless glass band. |
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| Gallery label | Beakers like this one were produced by the Amsterdam glassfactory at the Keizersgracht, in the 17th century. |
| Object history | Bought from the Bernal Collection. |
| Historical context | This type of beaker was commonly used for beer. It was particularly popular in the Netherlands. Beakers of this shape were produced in different techniques and with different decorative details. |
| Production | J.M.Baart, 'Herstellung und Gebrauch von Trinkgläser in Amsterdam (1580-1640), In: Spechtergläser, Glasmuseum Wertheim 1986, pp.55-87 According to Jan Baart March 1997, this is made by Soop and should therefore be dated: 1604-1620. However, such beaker seem also to have been made in the 'Twee Rozen' [Two Rozes] glass-house on the Rozengarcht, which was active from 1657 to 1679.Gawronski et all, 2010 |
| Summary | This type of beaker was commonly used for beer. It was particularly popular in the Netherlands. Beakers of this shape were produced in different techniques and with different decorative details. This beaker is made of filigree glass in three colours. This involves picking up prefabricated opaque white and coloured canes onto a bubble of hot, colourless glass. This can then be further inflated and manipulated. Twisting the top and bottom of the bubble in opposite directions creates the spiral effect we can see on our glass. Fragments of this type of multi-coloured beaker have been excavated at the site of a 17th-century Amsterdam glasshouse, but they were probably also imported from Antwerp and Middelburg. |
| Bibliographic reference | Gawronsky, Jerzy et al., Glasafval op het achtererf: Archeologische Opgravingen Rozenstraat Amsterdam (2006): AAR (Amsterdamse Archeologische Rapporten) 50, 2010, pp. 85-87, shows fragments of similar beakers from a dump associated with the Two Rozes glass-house which opperated on the Rozengracht in Amsterdam between 1657 and 1679. |
| Other number | 8453 - Glass gallery number |
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| Accession number | 1864-1855 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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