Humpen

Object NameEquestrian humpen

Made FromGlass

Date1605

Place MadeGermany; Bohemia

Techniquefree-blown, enameled, gilded

SizeH: 26.7 cm; D (rim): 12.8 cm, (foot ring): 14.6 cm

Accession Number57.3.128

Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Title Unknown (Schlossmuseum des Marktes Murnau)

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionTransparent pale greenish very bubbly glass with many impurities; wear marks at base; free-blown, enameled and gilded. Cylindrical body with pushed up base having very rough pontil mark, applied foot ring; enamel decoration: the frieze contains in multicolored enamel, three pairs of riders on horses proceeding to the right; the central pair, in black capes and black hats seem to be knights or burgers; they are preceded by two soldiers on horseback holding lances; behind them two more men on horseback also proceeding to the right, one apparently a herald and blowing a trumpet while the other is clad in full armor and is beating the drums; above is the date "1605"; the groups are separated from each other by green and white stalks of lily-of-the-valley, two curly ornaments are put in the free spaces of the central pair, an arrow-like motif is behind the pair with lances; below the rim there is a gilded band (partly rubbed off) studded with pairs of green and red beads; the band being accompanied by four rows of white beads, the beads of two of them much smaller than the others; below the main scene three bands in blue, yellow and red; white dashes on the foot ring; on the base in red paint: "LG 299a"; another number in black reads: "605".
Provenance

Former Collection Margarate Oppenheim

Source Edwin J. Beinecke (d. 1957)