Can manufactured with lid for the Amsterdam silversmith guild, Adam van Vianen (I), 1614
Can manufactured with lid for the Amsterdam silversmith guild, Adam van Vianen (I), 1614, silver gilt, h 25,0cm 14,0cm × W × D × g 9,0cm 910,0gr. Purchase with support from the Prince Bernhard Fund, the Rembrandt Association and the Foundation for the Promotion of the National Museum Holdings, 1976 - BK-1976-75. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
With lid of gilded silver. On the round, corrugated base sits a monkey that carries the cuppa. The cuppa widens towards the top, with a pouring spout at the front. The high ear is made up of, inter alia, a woman's body. The rest is a loose liner.
The body of this bizarre can consist of soft, flowing forms in each lobe in style, as if someone has listed stirring with a wooden spoon in a thick, viscous substance. From mummy All sorts of eerie, half-human, half-animal monsters on. Adam van Vianen made it to a monument in memory of his brother died in 1613 Paulus van Vianen.