Vessel in the form of a dragon
The dragon shape of this vessel alludes to the special powers ascribed to rock crystal: it was thought to change colour or crack when it came into contact with poison. Dragon blood was considered the deadliest substance known to man. The dragon, which now somewhat resembles a crocodile, originally had wings.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/25FF411
Type of item
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.594
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/25FF411
Type of item
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.594
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- c.1625 - c.1650
Place-Time
- 17th century
Places
Provenance
- …; collection Hermitage, Petersburg, 1915;{Note RMA; Starye Gody December 1915, image after p. 10.}…; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939) Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 56, no. K.109.} purchased from his estate, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.19450
- BK-17121
Extent
- height 19.0 cm
- width 60.5 cm
- depth 14.5 cm
- width 25.0 cm
- depth 13.0 cm
Format
- gold (metal)
- ruby (mineral)
- Vitreous enamel
- Gold
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collectie: edele metalen
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T13:26:02.998Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T13:05:13.778Z