Goblet with Maternity Scene
Jacob Sang
1750–70
Medium
Wheel-engraved lead glass
Dimensions
25.8 × 11.5 cm (10 1/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
Classification
goblet
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
266209
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This covered goblet would have been used to serve a beverage known as kandeel, a nourishing mix of eggs, liquor, and cinnamon, commonly served to women shortly after child birth. It is engraved with a design that reflects this, depicting a maternity chamber with a new mother in a canopied bed, a seated nurse rocking a baby in a cradle, a device for drying diapers, two chairs and a table set with two dishes of sweetmeats, and two goblets of the same shape as this one. Along the rim runs the toast...