Tazza (drinking cup) with a scene of Circe and the Companions of Odysseus

Tazza (drinking cup) with a scene of Circe and the Companions of Odysseus

BK-1985-24

• maker's mark: ‘A V in monogram in gecontourneerd schild (=Adam van Vianen)’
• date letter

This is a scene from the Odyssey, the epic tale of the perilous journey home made by Odysseus and his companions after the fall of Troy. The men came to the island where the sorceress Circe lived. She gave them a magic potion that transformed them into pigs (a pig walks out at the left). Warned in the nick of time, Odysseus was able to break the spell.

'Recent Acquisitions at the Department of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Supplement', The Burlington Magazine 132 (1990) nr. 1047, p. 447, afb. XVI.

silversmith: Adam van Vianen (I), Utrecht

1610

height 3.1 cm x diameter 18.2 cm x weight 281 gr

Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting and private collectors

purchase 1985

Public domain

'Recent Acquisitions at the Department of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Supplement', The Burlington Magazine 132 (1990) nr. 1047, p. 447, afb. XVI.

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