Humpen

Object NameArmorial Humpen

Made FromGlass

Date1649

Place MadeGermany, possibly Hesse

Techniquefree-blown, enameled, gilded

SizeH: 24 cm; D (rim): 11.3 cm, (foot ring): 11.7 cm

Accession Number57.3.104

Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

On ViewEuropean Gallery

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

The coats of arms belong to the ruling families of the German states of Hesse and Brandenburg. They commemorate the marriage of Wilhelm VI, Langrave of Hesse-Kassel (1629-1663) and Hedwig Sophia of Brandenburg (1623-1683).

Physical DescriptionClear glass with minute bubbles and impurities and dark greenish-grey tinge; wear marks; free-blown and enameled and gilded. Almost cylindrical body, tapering upper part and bottom, pushed up base with rough pontil mark; applied foot ring; enamel decoration: on the body, in multicolored enamel, a coat of arms of the house of Hesse and Brandenburg; above the arms of Brandenburg the following inscription: "W. 6. L. Z. H. G. Z. C. D. Z. U. N. - H. S. L. Z. H. G. A. C. S. D. M. Z. B." (Wilhelm Sechste Landgraf zu Hessen, Graf zu Catzenelnobogen, Diez, Ziegenhain und Nidda - Hedwig Sophie, Landgrafin zu Hessen, geboren aus Churfurstlichem Stamm der Markgrafen zu Brandenburg); below the Hesse coat of arms, "1649"; large quartered, gilded diamonds (partly rubbed off), studded with blue beads and accompanied by pairs of white spirals and blue beads, are put in pairs between the coats of arms; above the inscription a gilded band (partly rubbed off) with a large scale pattern with blue beads at the crossings; white dashes and dots on the foot ring.

Provenance

Former Collection Lucien Sauphar

Source Edwin J. Beinecke (d. 1957)