cup was sold for 166 guilders and it came into the hands of a collection in Scotland. It came up for auction in 1976 and the Rijksmuseum purchased it for 700,000 guilders with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt. At the time, it was the highest price ever paid for a piece of silver in the Netherlands. The reason had to do with the number of times the ewer was featured in prominent paintings of the 17th century. A selection of these are: Notes References "Glory", Kiers, Judikje and Tissink, Fieke, The Glory of the Dutch Golden Age, 2000, Wanders/Rijksmuseum (exhibition catalogue), Liedtke (2007): Liedtke, Walter A. (ed.), Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2 vols., 2007, , 9781588392732, google books Schroder, Timothy, "Adam van Vianen", Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed December 15, 2012, Oxford Art Online (subscription required) 2018 exhibition called Kwab in the Rijksmuseum, featuring this beaker and showing a video of the inside Collections of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Silver objects Art of the Dutch Golden Age