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Jug, decorated with music-making women
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Jug, decorated with music-making women

Suzanne de Court · 1575 - 1600 · gild; emailleren; copper (metal); gold (metal); email

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Pitcher of copper, decorated with scenes in enamel. On the relatively flat foot, karyatid-like figures are depicted. The bulbous body has a thickening halfway up in white decorated with gilded leaf scrolls. Below this rim, on one half, a group of singing and music-making women is depicted, the other half shows a group of men with flags, some on horseback. The upper half of the body shows a wagon drawn by oxen, on which a woman and a man playing the violin sit. In front of it walks Mercury. Behind the wagon walk several more music-making women and a loving couple. The upright neck is decorated on the outside with palm leaves, on the inside the signature: SUSANNE.COURT.F. The black handle is decorated with gilded flowers.

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Credit lineKan, versierd musicerende vrouwen. 1575 - 1600. Suzanne de Court. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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