Covered tankard on the prosperity of the herring fishery

Lead glass (crystal) lidded beaker consisting of a goblet (cup, stem and foot with turned rim and pontil mark and with image and text engraving) and an engraved lid with pinnacle. The engraved text reads 'the prosperity of the great fishery and the hunting'. Beaker as used by the College of the Great (Herring) Fishery in Delft during the regular meetings of the college members. On the glass, next to the text, a solitary fishing vessel (type herring herring) is visible and next to it a herring herring at the fleet (with nets out, 'standing rigging'). The term hunting does not refer to (wild) hunting, but to the herring fishery: sailing as quickly as possible to the market/mainland with a ship at the beginning of the herring season (from St John/ mid-June) of the first catches of the herring fleet. The first barrel ('corner') traditionally went from the late Middle Ages to the count, later stadtholder and king/queen.