Skip to main content

Humpen

Object NameHumpen with the Ages of Women
Made FromGlass
Date1575-1625
Place MadeGermany; Bohemia
Techniquefree-blown, enameled, gilded
SizeOverall H: 26.3 cm; D (rim): 12.1 cm, (foot ring): 13 cm
Accession Number57.3.85
Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
The Collection of Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild
Title Unknown (Kunstgewerbe Museum)
On ViewEuropean Gallery
Interpretive Notes
This Humpen shows various stages in the life of a woman, from childhood to old age.
Physical DescriptionHumpen with the Ages of Women. Clear glass with minute bubbles and impurities and pinkish-grey tinge; wear marks at base; free-blown, enameled and gilded. Cylindrical body with pushed up base with rough pontil mark, applied foot ring; enamel decoration: the object is divided in two zones each subdivided into rectangles consisting of yellow and red lines, the uprights having capital-like horizontals, holding arcades of ribbons with inscriptions; each of the rectangles shows the multicolored figure of a woman in the different stages of life starting on the upper zone with a girl of 10 and ending in the lower zone with a woman of 100; the inscriptions read: "10 IAR KINDISCH UND LKE(IN); 20 IAR EIN IUNGFREULEULEIN; 30 IAR EIN FRAU NU AN; 40 IAR REGIERET SCHON; 50 IAR VOLLER RELIGION; 60 IAR IHR WOL AUS WARTE(N) KAN; 70 IAR ALT UND UNGESTALT; 80 IAR HESLICHER DEN VOR; 90 IAR DER WELT SCHABAB; 100 IAR FULT DAS GRAB"; below rim a gilded band (partly rubbed off) studded with green beads as well as groups of parallel rows of white and blue beads, the band is framed by two red lines, above the band a row of white lily-of-the-valley blossoms; on the base in white: "GR-817" (for Goldschmidt-Rothschild).
Provenance
Former Collection Estate of Baron Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild - 1948-1950-03-10
This object formerly belonged to the British enslaver and Jamaican plantation owner, Ralph Bernal (1784-1854). It was later acquired by Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843-1940) in Frankfurt, Germany, from whose collection it was forcibly sold by order of the National Socialists in 1938. It was returned to von Goldschmidt-Rothschild’s heirs in 1948.
Former Collection Baron Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843-1940) - 1938
This object formerly belonged to the British enslaver and Jamaican plantation owner, Ralph Bernal (1784-1854). It was later acquired by Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843-1940) in Frankfurt, Germany, from whose collection it was forcibly sold by order of the National Socialists in 1938. It was returned to von Goldschmidt-Rothschild’s heirs in 1948.
Former Collection Hollingworth Magniac (English, 1786-1867) - 1892-07
Hollingworth Magniac (known as the Colworth Collection) sold at auction: Christie's, London, July 2, 4, 1892, No. 414
Former Collection Ralph Bernal (British, 1784-1854) - 1855-03-05
Ralph Bernal sold at auction: Christie's, London, March 5, 1855, No. 3071. This object formerly belonged to the British enslaver and Jamaican plantation owner, Ralph Bernal (1784-1854). It was later acquired by Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843-1940) in Frankfurt, Germany, from whose collection it was forcibly sold by order of the National Socialists in 1938. It was returned to von Goldschmidt-Rothschild’s heirs in 1948.
Source Edwin J. Beinecke (d. 1957)
Humpen
possibly 1500-possibly 1699
Ages of Man
1800-1899
Kurfürstenhumpen
1715-possibly 1899
Humpen
1594