Wine Glass
1650-1700 (made)
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The 'roemer' was the most popular drinking glass for white wine in the seventeenth-century Netherlands. A roemer is made out of green glass and consists of a foot, a hollow shaft, decorated with prunts, and a bowl. Bowl and shaft are blown as one hollow shape and visually separated with a ribbed glass thread around the outside. The prunts on the shaft are decorative but also provide a good grip. Roemers were imported into the Netherlands from Germany in the ten-thousands but smaller numbers were also produced locally. The typical green tint is caused by iron impurities in the sand used to make the glass. Glass can be decolourised, but the green tint was deemed attractive and ideally suited for drinking white wine, as the colour of the glass gives a golden tint to the wine inside.
This roemer is decorated with a suitably jolly scene of dancing peasants and a musician, skilfully scratched into the glass with a diamond-point.
This roemer is decorated with a suitably jolly scene of dancing peasants and a musician, skilfully scratched into the glass with a diamond-point.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Glass with diamond engraving and applied prunts |
| Brief description | Wine glass (Roemer), Netherlands, diamond-point engraved with dancing scene, 1650-1700 |
| Physical description | Roemer of clear, green glass. Cylindrical shaft opening out in an ovoid bowl. Spun, conical foot. There are raspberry prunts on the shaft. On the bowl an engraved scene of two couples of dancing peasants and a bag-pipe player seated on a wine barrel and grapevines. |
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| Credit line | Wilfred Buckley Collection |
| Object history | From the Wilfrid Buckley collection |
| Historical context | Green glass roemers were often used for white wine as the colour of the glass gives a golden tint to the wine inside. |
| Production | The engraving is in the style of Willem Mooleyser who was active in Rotterdam from about 1680-1700. Cf. Roemer in Rijksmuseum, dated 1650, with monogram JM (cat. 27); and other with date 1653 and monogram in the Ritman sale (Sotheby's London 14-11-95, lot 14) and one in Corning (Straus coll.) and fragments wirh monogram, excavated in Amsterdam (Casa Rossa). will be published by Baart. One of the scenes of a dancing couple is taken from the same print as another engraving on a berkemeyer in the Rijksmuseum, cat. II, nr. 50. |
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| Summary | The 'roemer' was the most popular drinking glass for white wine in the seventeenth-century Netherlands. A roemer is made out of green glass and consists of a foot, a hollow shaft, decorated with prunts, and a bowl. Bowl and shaft are blown as one hollow shape and visually separated with a ribbed glass thread around the outside. The prunts on the shaft are decorative but also provide a good grip. Roemers were imported into the Netherlands from Germany in the ten-thousands but smaller numbers were also produced locally. The typical green tint is caused by iron impurities in the sand used to make the glass. Glass can be decolourised, but the green tint was deemed attractive and ideally suited for drinking white wine, as the colour of the glass gives a golden tint to the wine inside. This roemer is decorated with a suitably jolly scene of dancing peasants and a musician, skilfully scratched into the glass with a diamond-point. |
| Bibliographic reference | 36/3574 Gift of Mrs Wilfrid Buckley (in memory of her husband). |
| Other number | 8714 - Glass gallery number |
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| Accession number | C.293-1936 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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