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Humpen
Humpen

Humpen

Object NameCovered Humpen
Made FromGlass
Date1701-1800
Place MadeGermany, possibly Pretzsch
Techniquefree-blown, enameled
Size(a&b) H: 25.1 cm; (a) H: 18.4 cm; D (rim): 9.2 cm, (foot ring): 8.9 cm
Accession Number57.3.112
Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionClear glass with minute and small bubbles; free-blown and enameled. (a) Cylindrical body with pushed up base having rough pontil mark, applied foot ring; (b) flanged domed cover with double knop finial; enamel decoration: on the obverse, in multicolored enamel, the coat of arms of Saxony and Poland, topped by the royal crown and flanked by standards etc., on the band above, the letters: "F. A. R. P. E. S." (Fredericus Augustus Rex Poloniae Elector Saxoniae); below rim and above foot ring a yellow and black ring around which winds a green tendril spirally and festoon-like heightened with white and black; groups of dashes on the foot ring; on the shoulder of the cover a similar tendril frieze, groups of white and yellow dashes on the flange, white dashes on the two blades on the finial.
Provenance
Source Edwin J. Beinecke (d. 1957)