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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR61.58.A-B
People
Hans Peter Müller, German (active in Breslau c. 1600)
Title
Mounted Carved Coconut Goblet Decorated with Scenes from the Story of Samson (with Lid)
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 1600
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/218058

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Coconut and silver, gilt
Dimensions
30.2 x 8.2 cm (11 7/8 x 3 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Eda K. Loeb
Accession Year
1961
Object Number
BR61.58.A-B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles L. Kuhn, German and Netherlandish Sculpture, 1280-1800, the Harvard Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1965), p. 24, cat. no. 50 pp. 95-96, repr. as pl. XL
  • Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums, Goethe Institute (Boston, MA, 1972), p. 16, repr. p. 55 as fig. 87
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 221
  • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Ivan Gaskell, Sara Schechner, and Sarah Anne Carter, Tangible Things: Making History through Objects, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York, 2015), pp. 127-128, 130, repr. p. 127 in fig. 101 and p. 128 as fig. 102

Exhibition History

  • Objects for a Kunstkammer: Early European Collecting, 1550-1700, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 12/10/2005 - 11/19/2006
  • Tangible Things, Houghton Library, Cambridge, 01/24/2011 - 05/29/2011
  • Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013
  • 32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 09/24/2019

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

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