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Reichsadlerhumpen
Reichsadlerhumpen

Reichsadlerhumpen

Object NameReichsadler Humpen
Made FromGlass, Enamel, Gilding
Date1574
Place MadeBohemia
Techniquefree-blown, enameled, gilded
SizeOverall H: 26.4 cm; Foot Rim Diam: 13.8; Rim Diam: 12.8 cm
Accession Number60.3.4
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Renaissance Remix: Art and Imagination in 16th-Century Europe
Not On View
Physical DescriptionClear glass with many minute bubbles and impurities and slight grey tinge; free-blown and enameled and gilded. Almost cylindrical body with high pushed up base having rough pontil mark, applied foot ring; enamel decoration: double headed empire eagle in grey, black and white with yellow halos and a crucifix, Christ having a crown of thorns in green, the cross is brown, on the wings the multicolored coats of arms of parts of the Holy Roman Empire, on the ends of the wings two flaming symbols; flanking the heads: "1574"; below rim a gilded band with scale design (rubbed off) and studded with green, red, and blue dots, the band being accompanied on top by a row of white and red pearls and at the bottom by two rows of blue and yellow pearls; beneath the band "DAS HEILIG ROMISCH REICH MIT SAMPT SEINEN GLIDERN", on the reverse the crowned brazen serpent in blue on a yellow cross.
Provenance
Source Edward R. Lubin