@article{c87eed5c4b494380a1b41f168c8ac819,
title = "Spirals and shells: Breasted vessels in sixteenth-century Nuremberg",
author = "Grasskamp, \{Anna Katharina\}",
note = "Funding Information: First steps in the direction of this article were made possible through a stay at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. I am grateful for comments and questions by organizers and participants of the conference “Object Fantasies: Forms and Fictions” at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit{\"a}t, where I presented some of the material incorporated into this article. I would like to thank the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University for support and the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University for defraying the cost of photographs. 1. Cups made in the shape of a female breast had also featured prominently in the material culture of ancient Greece. Early modern sources trace the literary description of breast-shaped cups back to Pliny the Elder, Natural History 33.23. Pierre de Bourdeille (1540– 1614) relates the ancient prototype to a cup made in the shape of the breast of Diane de Poitier in Recueil des dames, ed. E. Vaucheret (Paris, 1991), 410. For a discussion of an extant mastoid cup from ancient Greece (in relation to eighteenth-and nineteenth-century examples), see C. van Eck, “Works of Art That Refuse to Behave: Agency, Excess, and Material Presence in Canova and Manet,” New Literary History 46 (2015): 412–15. 2. Mermaid Ewer and Basin, made in London, 1610–11 (hallmarked), Victoria and Albert Museum, M.10\&A-1974. 3. Water Nymph, Nuremberg, ca. 1540, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1805. Fountains of this type also appear in two Nuremberg drawings: Wenzel Jamnitzer, Coburg Fountain, Nuremberg, ca. 1555, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Z 2860–K IV, and Anonymous, Design for a Fountain, Nuremberg, ca. 1580–90, Herzog Anton Ulrich–Museum Braunschweig, ZWB VII 70.",
year = "2017",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1086/692902",
language = "English",
volume = "67-68",
pages = "146--163",
journal = "Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics",
issn = "0277-1322",
publisher = "University of Chicago Press",
number = "1",
}