passglas
Object NameHofkellerei Passglas
Made FromGlass
Date1699
Place MadeGermany
Techniquefree-blown, enameled, gilded
SizeH: 24.7 cm; D (rim): 10.3 cm, (foot ring): 11.4 cm
Accession Number57.3.136
Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke
Curatorial Area(s)
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionClear glass with many bubbles and impurities and very slight green tinge; wear marks at base; free-blown, enameled and gilded. Almost cylindrical body, slightly concave at lower third, high pushed up base with rough pontil mark, applied crimped foot ring, collar around base of body; enamel decoration: on the obverse the multicolored coat of arms of Saxony and Poland, topped by the royal crown and the letters: "F. A. R. P. E. S." (Fredericus Augustus Rex Poloniae Elector Saxoniae); on the reverse: "BULDERHANNS 1699"; the whole body is divided in almost equal parts of five yellow horizontal rings, and below rim, by a gilded band (partly rubbed off) accompanied by three white lines.Provenance
Former Collection
Lord Whorton
Source
Edwin J. Beinecke
(d. 1957)
about 1965
