"Christiaen van Vianen (1598 – 1671) was a Dutch silversmith and draughtsman.
He was the son of Adam van Vianen and worked in his father´s auricular style ...
as a silversmith and designer. In the 1640s he employed the engraver Theodor van Kessel to make a book about his father´s designs, called Modelli Artificiosi di Vasi diversi d´argento et altre Opere capriciozi. These plates were later reworked in the 1650s into Constige modellen van verscheyden silvere vaten en andere sinnighe werken, gevonden ende geteekend door den vermaarden Adam van Vianen, sijnde meerendeels door hem uyt één stuk silver geslagen, uytgegeven door synen soon Christiaen van Vianen tot Utrecht, ende in cooper geetst door Theodor van Kessel." - (en.wikipedia.org 30.11.2020)
