Drinking Bowl

Drinking Bowl

BK-1956-25

signature and date: ‘AD VIANA. FE.1624’

The flat dish is engraved with a coat of arms, possibly of the Van Aller family of Utrecht. Adam van Vianen probably made the majority of his works of art in silver for wealthy connoisseurs in the Netherlands. The auricular border merges into a group of ancient gods: Bacchus, Ceres and Venus with Cupid.

silversmith: Adam van Vianen (I), Utrecht

1624

height 3.0 cm x width 25.5 cm x depth 21.0 cm x weight 370 gr

Het niet-geïdentificeerde wapen op het gladde middenstuk is in de trant van de prenten van Michel Le Blon [Blaauwen 1979].

purchase 1956

Public domain

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200114146