Goblet holder
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Agoblet holder,orBekerschroef,is a specific type of wine glass extender used for ceremonial occasions in theNetherlandsduring the 16th and 17th centuries.[1]
Many Dutch group portraits of guilds feature members holding one with a wine glass orrummer,in it. They were also often featured in still-life paintings, possibly to commemorate the banquet or feast of the holder.
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Vanitas with the Five Senses,byPieter Claesz
References
[edit]- ^BekerschroefinMatters of Taste: Food and Drink in Seventeenth-century Dutch Art and Life,by Donna R. Barnes and Peter G. Rose, Albany Institute of History and Art, 2002
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