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A goblet holder, or Bekerschroef, is a specific type of wine glass extender used for ceremonial occasions in the Netherlands during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Many Dutch group portraits of guilds feature members holding one with a wine glass or rummer, in it. They were also often featured in still-life paintings, possibly to commemorate the banquet or feast of the holder.
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Detail from Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Münster
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Vanitas with the Five Senses, by Pieter Claesz
References
- Bekerschroef in Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in Seventeenth-century Dutch Art and Life, by Donna R. Barnes and Peter G. Rose, Albany Institute of History and Art, 2002