Dutch
Amber Tinted Hunting Goblet, ca. 1750
On view
Glass
Dimensions10 1/8 × 3 13/16 in. (25.7 × 9.7 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Richards, 1974.65.16
Genre scenes depicting every day life became very popular in the Netherlands during the seventeenth century in all different artistic media. Hunting was a very fashionable sport and scenes like this one became very common. This particular goblet is a masterly specimen of architecture and landscape etching. The conical bowl features a castle, a hunter by a duck pond, and a farmhouse.
