SC - Food, Pottery & Glass
alysk at ix.netcom.com
alysk at ix.netcom.com
Sun Dec 12 16:42:33 PST 1999
Greetings! The Cleveland Museum of Art is having a show of still-life paintings from the
Netherlands (1550-1720) with some lovely depictions of pottery and glass, and "tons" of food -
vegetable, animal, and confections. They sell a book with all the paintings in them, including
color or black/white details. Potters and glassblowers will find quite a few examples of
beautiful ware.
Another book sold by the museum is _Still Life_ by Norbert Schneider and published by Taschen.
On the cooks' list there was discussion of waffles. Well, there's a period (late 1500s)
painting with a round waffle that has the usual square impressions. Another painting includes a
square waffle. There are at least two pretzel pictures. One picture (from the early 1600s?)
includes a grater hanging up on the wall. This book sold for around $20, I believe.
There are several examples of "pies" - big standing pies with inedible crust that is highly
decorated; smaller pies with the contents spilling out; and one that shows the texture of the
crust on the side as it has been broken off. There are a number of pictures showing various
sizes and types of bread. One of the 1500s pictures shows a large knob of butter looking much
like a stuffed pouch turned upside down. In the same picture are four small pies with the
shells obviously hand-made and not molded in a tin since they are unevenly round.
For folk with an interest in food of all types and containers of varying materials, I heartily
recommend looking at Dutch still life pictures.
Alys Katharine
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