beaker

Object NameArmorial Beaker

Made FromGlass

Date1800-1899

Place MadeGermany

Techniquefree-blown, enameled, enclosed in wire mesh frame

SizeH: 20 cm, D (rim): 10.5 cm

Accession Number57.3.153

Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke

Curatorial Area(s)

Exhibitions

Wine: Celebration and Ceremony

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionClear glass with minute bubbles and green tinge; free-blown and enameled, and enclosed in a wire mesh frame. Oval upper part curving down to bottom which flares to base with slightly concave center, having slight pontil mark; on the obverse in multicolored enamel, the coats of arms of Freiherr von Ellrod; on the reverse a multicolored cartouche with a central urn, in the empty spaces red and white rosettes and blossoms, below rim a band with blue and white circlets accompanied by white and red lines and two rows of yellow dots, an identical band around the base of the vessel.
Provenance

Former Collection Lord Curzon

Source Edwin J. Beinecke (d. 1957)