passglas

Object NameFamily Passglas

Made FromGlass, Enamel

Date1745

Place MadeGermany

TechniqueBlown, enameled

SizeH: 26 cm; D (rim): 9.5 cm, (foot): 11.7 cm

Accession Number57.3.137

Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionFamily Passglas. Clear glass with few bubbles; wear marks at base; free-blown and enameled. Almost cylindrical body slightly tapering downwards to flaring double walled foot and pushed up base with rough pontil mark all made of same gather as the upper part; enamel decoration: the surface is divided into five almost equal sections, separated from each other by yellow lines accompanied by two white lines; on the obverse, occupying the part of the two upper sections, in multicolored enamel, a couple standing upright on a strip of grass and flanking a stalk of the lily-of- the-valley, the man clad in a blue coat, his wife in yellow, blue and red-brown, the wife apparently holding a yellow apple in her right hand; between them on top a calligraphic spiral ornament and the initials: "I.N.V."; underneath three shield- like roundels or cartouches the central one enclosing symbols of a baker topped by a crown, the one on the left contains the tools of a mason, the one on the right the tools of a carpenter; underneath a white palmette-shaped motif; on the reverse: "Dien Rother Zuckermund, macht mir mein Hertz gesunt. Lieben in Ehren, Kan niemant wehren. VIVAT es Leben die drey Handwerck ins gesamt. Anno 1745." (Your red sugar mouth makes my heart healthy. To love and honor nobody can prevent. Long live the three crafts.)
Provenance

Former Collection Edwin J. Beinecke (d. 1957)