Humpen
Object NameHumpen
Made FromGlass
Date1675
Place MadeGermany
TechniqueFree-blown, enameled, gilded
SizeOverall H: 27.2 cm; D (rim): 11.9 cm, (foot ring): 12 cm
Accession Number57.3.122
Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Title Unknown (Kunstgewerbe Museum)
The Collection of Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild
Not On View
Physical DescriptionHumpen. Clear very bubbly glass with many impurities and pinkish-olive green tinge; wear marks at base; free-blown, enameled and gilded. Almost cylindrical body slightly tapering at bottom with pushed up base having rough pontil mark, applied foot ring; enamel decoration: on the body in multicolored enamel a representation filling the whole surface; it shows the Dobrich Family consisting of father, mother and nine children, accompanied by an elaborate inscription; on the obverse are the father, Dietrich, holding an elaborate covered white goblet in his left hand, on the right, his wife, Catharina holding a bunch of flowers in her right hand; both flank a heart surrounded by a half wreath and pierced by two arrows and a saw; to the left of Mr. Dobrich are his six sons, the second of whom is shown in a diminutive form as the child died shortly after his birth, symbolized by a cross surmounting his head; to the right of Mrs. Dobrich are three daughters; they all stand on a grass strip; in the empty spaces are gilded, quartered diamonds accompanied by yellow, white and red beads, as well as small white blossom-like motifs, some of them more elaborate than the others, as well as blossom and star- like motifs in white, blue and red; the family members are identified on a frieze below the grass strip, framed by four red and yellow lines, followed at the bottom by another frieze of white motifs similar to double volutes, again followed by a red line and a row of white beads. For complete description see Notepad: Current Full Description 1961-08-01Provenance
Former Collection
Baron Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild
(1843-1940)
Source
Edwin J. Beinecke
(d. 1957)
