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Humpen

Object NameAges of man humpen

Made FromGlass

Datepossibly 1500-possibly 1699

TechniqueFree-blown, enameled, gilded

SizeH: 27.2 cm; D (rim): 11.3 cm, (foot ring): 12.4 cm

Accession Number57.3.86

Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Renaissance Remix: Art and Imagination in 16th-Century Europe

Place Made

Germany; Bohemia

Physical DescriptionClear glass with minute bubbles and impurities and grey tinge; free-blown, enameled and gilded. Almost cylindrical body with pushed up base having rough pontil mark, applied foot ring; enamel decoration: the object is divided in two zones, each subdivided in upright rectangles framed by yellow and red lines, the uprights having capital-like horizontals supporting ribbon arcades bearing inscriptions; each rectangle contains in multi- colored enamel, the full-length figure of a male, symbolizing the different stages in the life of a man starting with a ten year old child and ending with an one hundred year old man, all accompanied by symbols of their age; the inscriptions are as follows: 10 IAR EIN KINDT; 20 IAR EIN MAN; 40 IAR WOLGETHAN; 50 IAR STILLE STAN; 60 IAR GEHTS ALTER AN; 70 IAR EIN GREIS; 80 IAR NIMMER WEIS; 90 IAR DER KINDER SPOT; 100 IAR GENAD DER GOT"; below rim a gilded band (partly rubbed off), studded with green beads as well as diagonally oriented paralleled lines of white and red beads, above a single red line, and a circlet of white lily-of-the-valley blossoms; on the base in white an old catalogue number: "F.386" as well as a paper label with the number "309"; in the panel which includes the boy of ten the date "1578" is painted in red.
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