Covered Beaker

Covered Beaker

Hans Greiff

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The emblem of the fisherman’s guild—a boat’s rudder and fishing hook crossed—is affixed to the inside of the beaker’s cover. Proud of their trade up and down the Danube, members of the fisherman’s guild embellished their emblem—a boat’s rudder and fishing hook crossed—to the inside of the lid of this festive drinking cup. A few years later, in 1498, they affixed the same motif to the guild house that they owned in the city of Ingolstadt.

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Museum's collection of medieval and Byzantine art is among the most comprehensive in the world. Displayed in both The Met Fifth Avenue and in the Museum's branch in northern Manhattan, The Met Cloisters, the collection encompasses the art of the Mediterranean and Europe from the fall of Rome in the fourth century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. It also includes pre-medieval European works of art created during the Bronze Age and early Iron Age.