{"product_id":"vermeer-the-milkmaid-porcelain-art-mug","title":"Johannes Vermeer: The Milkmaid, c. 1660 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilk falls in a thin stream from the jug into an earthenware bowl. It is the only thing in the picture that moves. The maid holds the jug with both hands and looks down at what she is doing; on the table in front of her, broken bread, a basket, a blue cloth. On the wall behind, a nail and the hole where another one was. The room is a back kitchen and the light comes from one window with a broken pane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVermeer painted it in Delft around 1660, on a canvas of 45.5 by 41 centimetres — small, and built like a monument. She stands in the light like a statue. The surfaces are made of countless small dots of paint: the crust of the bread, the rim of the basket, the wicker, the highlights along her sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2022 the Rijksmuseum scanned the canvas with macro-XRF and short-wave infrared and found two things Vermeer took out. A wooden rack for hanging jugs, sketched in black on the wall behind her head, never carried further. And a fire basket in the lower right — willow, for glowing coals, used to warm an infant or dry linen — painted over with the foot stove, the tiles and the floor. Beneath her left arm runs a thick black line laid in fast. He began roughly, in light and dark, and refined afterwards. The painter famous for his precision did not start with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat stayed is at her feet: the foot stove, and beside it on the skirting a row of blue-and-white tiles, one of them carrying a small figure. It sits in the darkest part of the picture, and nobody in the room is looking at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe painting is upright, so it does not run round the mug as a band. It sits on the front like a picture on a wall — the whole canvas, edge to edge, at the proportions of the original, with the porcelain left white to either side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fourth product image shows four details at close range: the stream of milk, the bread and the basket, the nail on the empty wall, and the foot stove with its tiles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFine Porcelain — 10 oz. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid, c. 1660. Oil on canvas, 45.5 × 41 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, SK-A-2344, purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, 1908. Public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":58235430797643,"sku":"555fff51-acbe-4155-b1ca-2a7e5d4a4a6e","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/Vermeer_Mug_1_front_3000_6867e7fe-0511-4189-bcb1-5a634a899e19.jpg?v=1787519083","url":"https:\/\/tazzarte.com\/products\/vermeer-the-milkmaid-porcelain-art-mug","provider":"Tazzarte","version":"1.0","type":"link"}