Adriaen de Grebber

Exhibited by A. Aardewerk

Material Silver

Dimensions 18 cm

Place of Creation Delft

Status Vetted

About the Work

These figures of a man and a woman belong to a distinctive category of Dutch silverwork. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, freestanding table ornaments in the form of animals or human figures, such as this pair, were very fashionable

in Germany and Switzerland. In the Netherlands, only two types are known from this period: the silver cockerels and hens made exclusively in Dordrecht, and the silver pairs of the Büttenmannen, or grape-pickers, made exclusively in Delft. It has been established that this pair belonged to a noble family before 1795 and has remained in that family ever since.

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