CIRCA 1605, POSSIBLY DELFT

细节

(1) A rare Dutch lead-glazed earthenware anticlerical monk's beaker
CIRCA 1605, POSSIBLY DELFT
Monniksbeker, modelled as a hollow mendicant priest, the yellowish-brown ground enhanced in green and darker brown
17.7 cm. high

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拍场告示

Please note that this lot comprises one object.

拍品专文

See S. Oskamp, 'De Monniksbeker van grap bij de wijn tot religieuze propaganda', Vormen uit Vuur, 1996/1, nr. 157, ill. p. 13.
These hollow figural beakers were used as scherts-drinkgerei or satirical drinking vessels ridiculising the clergy.