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Standing Cup with Cover
Johannes Lutma1639 (Baroque)
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
This beautiful ceremonial cup for wine is made of gilded silver, combining the aesthetic qualities of gold with the greater strength of silver. The undulating, embossed shapes that seem drawn from the underwater world are characteristic of Johannes Lutma, one of the greatest Dutch silversmiths. They also convey the aesthetics of the wider European baroque, reminding us that the initial use of "baroque" was for an irregular but lustrous pearl. Such a cup would be displayed when not in use.
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Details
- Title: Standing Cup with Cover
- Creator Lifespan: 1584/1669
- Creator Nationality: Dutch
- Date Created: 1639 (Baroque)
- Physical Dimensions: h32.1 cm
- Type: cups;covers
- Rights: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1911, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- External Link: The Walters Art Museum
- Medium: gilt on silver
- Provenance: Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase, Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Place of Origin: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Inscriptions: H Marks of Amsterdam Silversmith's mark
- ExhibitionHistory: Art of Europe XVI-XVII. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester. 1948; All that Glisters: Thirty Centuries of Golden Deception. Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, New York. 1950; Four Centuries of Dutch Silver. The Hague Municipal Museum, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague. 1952; World of Wonder. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1971-1972; The Proud Republic: Dutch Medals of the Golden Age. The Frick Collection, New York. 1997; A Collector's Cabinet. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 1998; Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt. The Newark Museum, Newark; Denver Art Museum, Denver. 2001-2002
- Artist: Janus Lutma, the elder
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