Roemer with the arms and the motto of Prince Maurice. The barren, chopped-down tree engraved on the glass stands for Maurice’s assassinated father, William ofOrange. Sprouting from another stump are two twigs: Maurice and his younger brother, Frederick ’s motto (Tandem fit surculus arbor) reads in translation: ‘In time, the (off)shoot becomes a tree.’ By1606, when this glass was engraved, Maurice had already racked up many military successes.

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