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JORIS CLAES (1580-1628)

Porringer

1606

RCIN 51278

The particularly fine engravings on this porringer include elements drawn from sixteenth-century Netherlandish prints after works by Maarten van Heemskerck (1498 – 1574). The base is engraved with the name Anna Michiels van Vaerlaer (1583/4 – 1644), a member of a prominent Mennonite (or Anabaptist) family from Antwerp, and it is possible that this piece was a baptism gift, although it is an opulent example for a member of a church which usually shunned luxury.
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    EAJ : Jones, E.A., 1911. The Gold and Silver of Windsor Castle, Letchworth p. 46, pl. XIII, 2


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