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Staff of the Wine Merchants' Guild
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Staff of the Wine Merchants' Guild

anonymous · 1675 - 1700 · turning; striking (metalworking); cutting; ebony (wood); silver (metal)

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

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Round wooden staff with joints, decorated with woodcarving. On top sits a Bacchus on a cask with a drinking bowl in the right hand and a bunch of grapes in the left hand. Below this Adam and Eve before and after the Fall, below this marriage(-spare) and a woman with two children. Below five smoking and drinking men making a round dance. The staff ends in a bunch of grapes. Between the scenes silver rings should be present, of which only the lowest one is still present.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineBodestaf van het wijnkopersgilde. 1675 - 1700. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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