{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O93423"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O93423/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AL0158/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AL0158/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2006AL0158","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O93423/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O93423","accessionNumber":"M.485:1, 2-1911","objectType":"Beaker and cover","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"During the medieval period, the Baltic ports were home to the Hanseatic League, a rich trading association whose commercial centres were Hamburg, Lübeck and Danzig (modern Gdansk). They established trading links with the coastal cities of Scandinavia and western Russia and continued to flourish as centres for goldsmiths’ work well after the League dissolved in the 16th century.","physicalDescription":"Beaker on three plain cast ball feet, the body boldly embossed with foliage and flowers, the rim everted with plain band and punched border beneath, the lid with swirling acanthus foliage, the knop a cast acorn in nest of oak leaves. Erased inscription around rim.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Linden, Jürgen","id":"A10802"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"}],"techniques":[{"text":"embossed","id":"AAT53826"},{"text":"cast","id":"AAT53104"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Silver, embossed and cast","categories":[{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2006AL0158"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"69 (VA)","id":"THES49729"},"free":"","case":"11","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"69 (VA)","id":"THES49729"},"free":"","case":"11","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"beaker","id":""}],[{"text":"cover (closure)","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Riga","id":"x37433"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1680","earliest":"1675-01-01","latest":"1684-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"14.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Struck on the base of the beaker:\r\ntown mark for Riga: crossed keys surmounted by a cross\r\nmaker's mark 'I L' on either side of a tree for Jürgen Linden (active 1674-1683; workshop active until 1688).","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""},{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Traces of an erased, illegible inscription round the lip of the beaker."}],"objectHistory":"Jürgen Linden was apprenticed to his father, Hans Conrad Linden, a Riga goldsmith. He registered his own mark, also in Riga, on 14 January 1674. Jürgen seems to have died around 1683, as he no longer appears in official records after this date. His widow ran his workshop until 1688. See Lightbown (1975), p. 238 (cat. no. 129) and Leistikow (1996), pp. 325 and110 (p;. 168). \r\nThe illegibility of the inscription round the rim means nothing is known of the beaker's early history or provenance. The Museum purchased it in 1911 from G. Jorck for £22.\n\nHistorical significance: Ball-footed beakers are a common form of drinking vessel in seventeenth-century Northern Europe. This is a rare example to survive with its lid.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Covered beaker, silver, on three ball feet. The body and lid embossed with foliage and flowers, knop a cast acorn in nest of oak leaves.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Lightbown, R. W., <u>Catalogue of Scandinavian and Baltic Silver</u>, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1975. ISBN: 0901486655"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Leistikow, Annelore. <u>Baltisches Silber</u>. Lüneberg: Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1996. ISBN: 3922296831."}],"production":"Baltic (modern Latvia)","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"CUP AND COVER.\r\nSilver, chased and embossed. Maker's mark, of Jurgen Linden (Meister 1674; d. before 1688).\r\nSWEDISH (RIGA HALL-MARK);\r\nLATE 17th CENTURY\r\nM. 485-1911","date":{"text":"Pre-2000","earliest":"2000-01-01","latest":"2000-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["M.485:1-1911","M.485:2-1911"],"accessionNumberNum":"485","accessionNumberPrefix":"M","accessionYear":1911,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","beaker","cover (closure)"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-12","recordCreationDate":"2004-02-20","availableToBook":false}}