Reichsadler-Humpen

Object NameHumpen

Made FromGlass

Date1596

Place Madeprobably Bohemia

Techniquefree-blown, enameled, gilded

SizeH: 30.2 cm; D (rim): 13 cm, (foot ring): 14 cm

Accession Number57.3.62

Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Not On View

Physical DescriptionClear glass with very slight grey tinge and minute bubbles and impurities; free-blown, enameled and gilded. Cylindrical body with high pushed up base having rough pontil mark, applied foot ring; enamel decoration: the double headed eagle in black and white, with blue orb of state and yellow cross; on the wings the multicolored coats-of-arms of the parts of the Holy Roman Empire, below rim a gold band with scale pattern and blue central beads accompanied by four rows of white and blue beads, white dashes on the foot ring; below the gold band: "Dasz helige Romische Reich Mitt Sampt Seinen Gliedern 1596"; a white star ornament below the date; an old catalogue number in white on the base: "116".

Provenance

Former Collection C. A. Milani

Former Collection Eugene Felix

Former Collection Viktor Schick

Source Edwin J. Beinecke (d. 1957)
was also in the collection of German Museums (per Beineke inventory catalogue)