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This dish was made for Joost van Heemskerk and Anna Coninck for their marriage in 1685. The engraving is the work of Willem van Heemskerk, an amateur glass engraver, cloth merchant by trade. He and other engravers carried on the tradition of glass calligraphy introduced at the beginning of the century by Anna Roemers Visscher and Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, the daughters of the poet Roemer Visscher.
The dish on which Van Heemskerk engraved his wishes for the bridal couple was made in the Netherlands in the Venetian manner (à la façon de Venise).
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