tankard

Object NameKurfursten Tankard

Made FromGlass; metal

Date1800-1899

Place MadeGermany

Techniquefree-blown, cold painted

Size(a&b) H: 24.6 cm; (a) H: 20.6 cm; D (rim): 9.5 cm, (foot ring): 11.4 cm

Accession Number57.3.149

Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke

Curatorial Area(s)

Exhibitions

International Exhibition of Old Art

Not On View

Physical DescriptionGreenish glass with few bubbles and impurities; free-blown and cold painted. Pear-shaped with wide short cylindrical neck, attached to upper neck and central body; metal, probably copper cover attached to upper handle with thumb piece and cover in the shape of a sphere section, having a three petaled blossom as a finial, strap work ornaments on the top of the cover; a metal mount cut into leaves surrounds the foot; on the body in multicolored paint, and arranged in two registers, the double headed crowned eagle of the German Empire flanked by two representations of the German Emperor riding on a white horse and facing the eagle; on the lower register five electors riding on white horses proceeding to the right; all are riding on grass strips with a row of white beads underneath; the date "1643" flanks the eagle; the inscriptions accompanying the Emperor and the electors read as follows: "KAISER V. ROM ROM KAISER BRANDENBURG TRIER MEN(TZ) (PF)ALTZ SACHSEN(N) (part of the inscription flaked off); on the back two large star rosettes, in the empty spaces more small rosettes; on the base a paper label, blue and white with the printed inscription: "TENTOONSTELLING VAN OUDE KUNST RIJKSMUSEUM 1929", at the center in ink: "A. Vecht 51".

Provenance

Former Collection Prince Carl von Isenberg
Said to have been in the Collection of Carl von Isenberg

Former Collection A. Vecht

Source Edwin J. Beinecke (d. 1957)