beaker

Object NameUnbreakable Beaker

Made FromGlass

Date1663

Techniquefree-blown, applied, tooled decoration, engraved

SizeOverall H: 13.25 cm, Diam (rim): 8.1 cm, Th:1.2 cm

Accession Number58.3.213

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Masterpieces of Germanic Glass, 15th-19th centuries

East Side Winter Antiques Show

Place Made

Germany

Physical DescriptionTransparent very thick very bubbly green glass (forest glass) light green glass with black impurities; wear marks at base; free-blown with applied and tooled decoration, and engraved. Cylindrical body with a slightly concave base and rough pontil mark, applied base ring foot; around lower section of body three rows of applied prunts, above a rigaree band; around upper section an inscription in diamond-point engraving: "Trinckh mica auff wurff mich Nider heb mich auff so vill mich wider 1663", a quatrefoil motif separates the inscription; at the base, two labels, one of which says: "MAGNIAC COLLECTION 424-2", the other: "HA-50-26".
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