Humpen

Object NameHofkellerei humpen

Made FromGlass

Date1650

Techniquefree-blown, enameled, gilded

SizeH: 30.5 cm; D (rim): 11.9 cm, (foot ring): 13.7 cm

Accession Number57.3.107

Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Place Made

Germany

Physical DescriptionTransparent extremely bubbly yellowish glass with impurities; free-blown, enameled and gilded. Almost cylindrical body slightly tapering at upper part, high pushed up base with rough pontil mark, foot ring made of same gather; enamel decoration: on the obverse the multicolored coat of arms of Saxony, underneath: "1650"; above the arms: "I. G. H. Z. S. I. C. V. B. C." (Johann Georg Herzog zu Sachsen, Julich Cleve und Berg Churfurst); flanking the arms: "Hoff Kellerey Torgaw" (Torgau); flanking the arms two pairs of gilded diamonds (rubbed off) flanked by groups of dots and spirals in white and having a large central blue bead; a fifth diamond on the back; below rim a gilded band (partly rubbed off) accompanied by four rows of white beads, white widely spaced dashes on the foot ring.
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