Honoring the captaincy of Jan Berewout Jan Lanckhorst (1668–1742) Cup from Jan Berewout's captaincy, The round cup has a separate lid. The foot rests on a low, straight-walled base. It is made up of a constricted part with a widened lower edge, and a convex part adorned with a laurel wreath bound with ribbons. The convex surface shows on a scaly ground decorated with three oval fields flanked by volutes with leaves. The following representations are shown in the fields: Perseus frees Andromeda from the dragon, a goddess gives an arrow to Diana, and Hercules kills Nessus who kidnaps Deianeira.


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