This ewer, also called the Stella ewer, is marked for Jacob Wemmersz. Hoppesteyn, who was the owner of The Moor’s Head factory from 1659 until 1671. The delicate decoration on this ewer shows children’s games, painted after seventeenth-century engravings by Jacques Stella. The engravings were published in Les Jeux et Plaisirs de l’enfance accompanied by poems. the aim of this nine holes ball game was to fill the center hole, but essentially it refers to the lottery of life at any age. According to the poem, the soap bubbles refer to the insignificant and evanescent troubles and worries of adults.
