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Wine flagon
- Place of origin:
Netherlands (made)
- Date:
ca. 1690 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
Pewter
- Credit Line:
Child Gift.
- Museum number:
1005-1905
- Gallery location:
Europe 1600-1815, Room 5, The Friends of the V&A Gallery, case CA1
This type of wine flagon is often referred to as a 'Jan Steen'' flagon as similar vessels appear in his genre paintings of merry drinkers and tavern scenes. Flagons with long spouts such as this were also known in France and Switzerland from the 14th century, and the form survived with little variation until well into the eighteenth century.