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Kurfürstenhumpen
Kurfürstenhumpen

Kurfürstenhumpen

Object NameKurfursten humpen
Made FromGlass
Date1594
Techniquefree-blown, enameled, gilded
SizeH: 29.8 cm; D (rim): 11.5 cm, (foot ring): 13.7 cm
Accession Number57.3.73
Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke
Curatorial Area(s)
Place Made
Bohemia
Physical DescriptionClear bubbly glass with many impurities and very slight amber tinge; free-blown, enameled and gilded. Almost cylindrical body with pushed up base having rough pontil mark, applied ring foot; enamel decoration: the crowned Roman Emperor, seated on a throne and holding a scepter and orb of state in his hands before his legs the double headed eagle on a yellow shield, green throne with canopy in yellow, white, red and blue; on his left and right the standing figures of the seven Kurfursten or Electors identified by their names and coats of arms "TRIER COLN MENTZ BEHEM PFALTZ SACHSEN BRANDENBURG"; above the Electors: "Die Romische keiserliche magstat sampt dem siben Churfursten ihn ihrer kledung ampt und sicz 1594"; below rim a golden band (partly rubbed off) in scale design heightened by green beads and accompanied by four rows of white and blue beads, dashes on the foot ring; on the reverse a lily-of-the- valley stalk with green leaves and blue and yellow blossoms; underneath the main frieze which is framed at the bottom by a single red band below a grass strip, a long inscription: "ALSO IN ALLE IREN ORNAT/ SICZT KAY (SERLICHE) MAGESTAT/ SAMPT DEN VII CHURFURSTEN GU(T)/WIE DENN EIN IDER SITZEN THUT/ IN KURFURSTLICHER KLEIDUNG FIEN/MIT ANZEIGUNG DES AMPTS SEIN. DER KONIG IN BEHEM DER IST/ DES REICHS ERTSCHENFCK ZU ALLER F(RIST)/ HIERNACH DER PFALTZGRAVE BEIN R(EIN)/ DES HEILIGEN REICHS TRUCHSUS TUT S(EIN)/ DER HERZOG ZU SACHSSEN GEBORN/ IST DES REICHS MARSCHAL AUSERKOR(EN)/ DER MARGGRAVE VON BRANDENBURG GUT/ DES REICHS ERTZKAMMER SEIN THUT. DER ERTZBISCHOF ZU MENTZ BEKA(NNT)/ IST KANTZLER IN DEUCHZEN LANT/SO IST DER BISCHOF ZU COLN BLE(ICH)/ AUCH KANTZER DURCH G(ANTZ) FRANCK(ENREICH)/ DARNACH DER ERTZBISCHOF ZU T(RIER) IST KANTZELER IN WELCHER REVIR"; the poem refers to the positions of the Emperor and the seven Electors.
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