beaker

Object NameHunting beaker

Made FromGlass

Date1714

Place MadeGermany

Techniquefree-blown, enameled

SizeH: 15.5 cm; D (rim): 13.5 cm, (base): 10.2 cm

Accession Number57.3.98

Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionComparatively heavy clear glass with many minute bubbles and slight grey tinge; wear marks at base; free-blown and enameled. Straight-sided tapering beaker with flat base having rough pontil mark; enamel decoration: on the body in multicolored enamel, predominantly blue, green, white and red-brown an elaborate hunting scene; a hunter, with a blue coat, sword and holding a gun in his left hand is blowing into a small trumpet; to the left a dog pursuing three stags; on the back there is a white net attached to two trees, one with the blue and the other with a yellow trunk; green ground ornament, in the empty spaces green grass tufts and spiral-like ornaments in green and the line; flanking the hunter is the inscription: "Anno 1714. Viel Jahr, viel gefahr." (Many years much danger.); below rim a yellow and red band with a black ornament frieze of ovals and diamonds, the band being accompanied by two U-shaped friezes in white.

Provenance

Former Collection Castle B.

Source Edwin J. Beinecke (d. 1957)