Humpen
Object NameGiant Humpen with Cover
Made FromGlass
Date1800-1899
Place MadeGermany
Size(a&b) H: 56-57 cm; (a) H: 38-39 cm
Accession Number57.3.151 B
Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionTransparent pale green very heavy glass with bubbles and impurities; free-blown, cold painted and gilded. a) Tall cylindrical body with pushed up bases having rough pontil mark, the broadened base tooled to have a wavy outline, the underside shows piercings from a tool; b) flanged, domed cover with large double bulge top crowned by a finial consisting of a succession of knops decreasing in diameter towards the top. On the cover in four registers and in multicolored paint, hunting groups, each of the upper three consisting of two hunters with game and hounds, the bottom one showing a continuous frieze of game including boar, stag, lion, fox, etc.; the upper three friezes are interrupted, on the obverse, by the multicolored coats of arms of the Elector of Saxony surrounded by a wreath on which a squirrel sits; underneath the wreath an inscription: "Ihr edle Jager allzumahl/Seit mir willkomm in disem Thal/Diana eure Gottinn hier/Versamblt hat allerley thier/ Wer Sie liebt trinkt mich auch dabey/ Erschall ein frolich Jagdgeschrey" (Hunters you are always welcome in this valley, Diana you goddess here has assembled quite a lot of game; who loves her drinks out of me may happy hunting cry be intimated.); in the empty spaces gold and white star-like ornaments and blossoms, below rim a gilded band accompanied by two rows of beads, on the foot ring groups of three white dashes; on the cover similar larger gilded and white star and blossom motifs, groups of three dashes on the flange and on the bulges as well as on the finials, rings of white beads adjoined to the bulges and the finials.Provenance
Source
Edwin J. Beinecke
(d. 1957)
