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Date : approx. between 1609 and 1620
Material : Gilded silver, Silver
Acquisition : Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan (1917)
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Objet(s) d'Art
Dishes
Vitrine : V03
Area related
Nuremberg (Germany)
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Nefs, silver vessels in the form of a ship, marked the place at the table of the master f house. They served as drinking vessels and sometimes as containers for salt and spices. In early seventeenth-century Nürnberg it had become customary to give them as wedding gift. Linden was a specialist in nefs. More than fifty similar vessels from his workshop are known today. Some of the silver figures on the deck of the ship are later additions.
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