Humpen
Object NameHumpen
Made FromGlass
Date1655
Place MadeGermany
Techniquefree-blown, enameled
SizeH: 21.4 cm; D (rim): 9.9 cm, (foot ring): 11.4 cm
Accession Number57.3.123
Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke
Curatorial Area(s)
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionTransparent pale green glass with minute bubbles and impurities; wear marks at base; free-blown and enameled. Very slight convex body with greatest diameter at rim; pushed up base with rough pontil mark, of same gather; enamel decoration: the multi- colored decoration in predominantly dark blue, white and light blue, represents Peter Epperlin, his wife and two daughters; on the obverse, Peter Epperlin in a dark blue suit and hat holding a white goblet in his left hand and toasting to his wife who faces him and holds a green wreath in her right hand; she is clad in dark blue and white with a light blue cap; behind her are her two daughters; on the reverse a red-brown shield with the emblems of the Millers' Guild, including wheel and axe, at bottom of the shield a pretzel-like motif surmounted by a crown; the shield is flanked by two lily-of-the-valley stalks in green, yellow and white; to the right of the husband is his name "Peter Epperlin"; his wife is identified by "C. E" and his two daughters by: "R. E." and "C. E."; a star-like ornament between husband and wife; the inscription on the upper part of the frieze reads "Fisch Frey und wacker,/ die muhl die ist mein Acker,/Der Backoffen ist mein pflugt/Hedt ich Korrn und witz umbsonst,/So wegen ich gelt genug. Anno 1655." (Fresh free and sound the mill is my land, the baker's oven is my plow. If I had grain and wit free then I would make enough money.); below rim a band consisting of five blue, red, and yellow lines, the yellow interrupted by groups of white dashes, on top and bottom of the band, two U-shaped lines; around the lower body four red, blue and yellow lines; white dashes on the foot ring; on the base an old catalogue number in white: "F370".Provenance
Source
Edwin J. Beinecke
(d. 1957)
