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Glass serving bottle (© Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery)
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© Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Glass serving bottle

Artist: Willem Jacobsz. Van Heemskerk (1613 - 1692)

Location: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Date: 1676

Materials: green tinted glass

Dimensions: 24 cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £8,500 (Total: £41,500)

Vendor: Heide Hubner

Review number: 3327 (1988)

Provenance:
Sotheby's 1986.

Description:
Engraved in the diamond point technique with the inscription; 'Wiens Mond en Hert voor't quaed zich goed, GOD voed zijn Lichaem en Geomoed, Met overloed van alle goed'. Pontil inscribed 'W.van Heemskerk Aet 63, Ano 1676 in Leyden'.

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