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Flute glass with a bagpiper, dancing peasants, and a courting couple
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Flute glass with a bagpiper, dancing peasants, and a courting couple

anonymous · c. 1650 - c. 1700 · diamond-point engraving; façon de Venise; glassblowing; silver (metal); glass

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

About this work

Silver foot. Baluster-shaped, hollow stem with two discs. High, funnel-shaped bowl. On the bowl, under garlands of fruit and birds, a genre scene is engraved featuring a peasant and peasantess dancing to the music of a bagpiper and a courting couple. Below the scene a tulip and a rose between three festoons.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
flute glass
Credit lineFluitglas met een doedelzakspeler, dansende boeren en een vrijend paar. c. 1650 - c. 1700. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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