bottle

Object NameBrandy bottle

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1700-1799

Techniquepatterned in a mold, half-post method, enameled

SizeH (with screw top): 14 cm; W (max.): 6 cm, (min.): 5.3 cm

Accession Number57.3.162

Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Place Made

Central Europe

Physical DescriptionClear glass with minute bubbles and impurities; clouded from the interior; patterned in a mold, half-post method and enameled. Octagonal straight-sided body with sloping shoulder and joined in half-post method, topped by screw top, almost flat base with pontil mark; on the obverse, in multicolored "peasant type" enameling, the full-length figure of a gentleman in a red coat, holding a yellow wine glass in his left hand, on the reverse "VIVAT mein Hertz"; on the narrow sides flower and leaf stalks on the diagonals, blue dots framed at top and bottom by curved curly cue ornaments red strip on shoulder with yellow leaves.

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