A TENTATIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF TWO DISPERSED SETS OF 17TH CENTURY BEAKERS
A TENTATIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF TWO DISPERSED SETS OF 17TH CENTURY BEAKERS

Summary/Abstract: The Mureș County Museum’s collection holds two stacking beakers, one of them was part of chancellor Miklós Bethlen of Bethlen’s (1642–1716) collection, the other belonged to Sára Göcs (–1700), burgher of Cluj. One of the most frequent pieces of 17th century goldsmith’s and representation was the stacking beaker. This was always part of a larger set of six, twelve or twenty-four pieces. Our study attempts to reconstruct two series. It describes through the surviving items of the scattered sets, the circumstances of their produc-tion and their history, thus providing an insight into the material culture of the 17th century Transylvanian nobility and bourgeoisie.

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