Nautilus cup 1602 Dutch, Utrecht Over the course of the sixteenth century, rulers like Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria (who claimed to spend annually on his collections the equivalent of yearly salaries for one thousand soldiers), increasingly supplemented treasuries of precious metals with natural wonders, or naturalia. These collections were assembled in suites of rooms called Kunstkammern, or curiosity cabinets. Set in fantastical mounts, lustrous nautilus shells like this one brought the distant Indian Ocean to the North. Building on the belief that owning a universe in microcosm indicated act
Nautilus cup 1602 Dutch, Utrecht Over the course of the sixteenth century, rulers like Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria (who claimed to spend annually on his collections the equivalent of yearly salaries for one thousand soldiers), increasingly supplemented treasuries of precious metals with natural wonders, or naturalia. These collections were assembled in suites of rooms called Kunstkammern, or curiosity cabinets. Set in fantastical mounts, lustrous nautilus shells like this one brought the distant Indian Ocean to the North. Building on the belief that owning a universe in microcosm indicated actual dominancy, Albrecht and his contemporaries opened up their Kunstkammern for the admiration and erudition of their guests.[Elizabeth Cleland, 2017]. Nautilus cup. Dutch, Utrecht. 1602. Nautilus shell, with gilded silver mounts. Metalwork-Silver In Combination
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