St. Olaf College 3D object collection ➔ Wooden horsehead-handled drinking vessel
Wooden Handicrafts
Creation: 1832 Single
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Large wooden drinking cup with two horsehead handles. The vessel is covered inside and outside with black, green, white, yellow, blue, and red rosemaling. Along the rim, black lettering reads, "Sretre 1832 ... | Anfin Olsden Gurofons Dotter [?]." On the bottom, pencil lettering reads, "10442." Wear is present throughout, mainly on the handle, rim edges, and bottom. A large crack and two tiny holes are present along the base of one of the handles.
Large wooden drinking cup with two horsehead handles. The vessel is covered inside and outside with black, green, white, yellow, blue, and red rosemaling. Along the rim, black lettering reads, "Sretre 1832 ... | Anfin Olsden Gurofons Dotter [?]." On the bottom, pencil lettering reads, "10442." Wear is present throughout, mainly on the handle, rim edges, and bottom. A large crack and two tiny holes are present along the base of one of the handles.
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"Kjenge" are oval-shaped drinking vessels, usually hand-carved from one piece of wood, common to Hardanger, Voss, and inner Sogn. The handles, or "hanka", are occasionally characterized as horseheads, snakes, or with doves seated atop.
"Drinking vessel of cup type (kjenge) with horsehead handles. A two-handled drinking
vessel with rosemaled decoration both inside and outside. The region of origin is probably the Hardanger area of Norway although the bowl form of kjenge was found in Hordaland generally, in Sogn, and the western edge of east Norway." - Description from 2006 appraisal by Mary Jo Thorsheim
"Drinking vessel of cup type (kjenge) with horsehead handles. A two-handled drinking
vessel with rosemaled decoration both inside and outside. The region of origin is probably the Hardanger area of Norway although the bowl form of kjenge was found in Hordaland generally, in Sogn, and the western edge of east Norway." - Description from 2006 appraisal by Mary Jo Thorsheim
Folk art--Norway
drinking vessels
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