tankard

Object NameTankard

Made FromGlass

Date1596

Place MadeBohemia

Techniquefree-blown, enameled, gilded

Size(a&b) H (w/out thumb piece): 17.2 cm; (a) H: 16 cm, D (rim): 6 cm

Accession Number57.3.111

Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

East Side Winter Antiques Show

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionTransparent deep blue glass with many bubbles and impurities; wear marks at base; free-blown, enameled and gilded. Almost cylindrical body with wide cylindrical neck, with applied double walled foot ring, the pushed up base having a very rough pontil mark; applied solid ear-shaped handle attached to upper neck and upper shoulder; two glass threads applied to upper neck and joined between body and neck; pewter top attached to upper handle, with thumb piece; two marks on the interior, one a K, the other one a vertical cross-hatched strip; enamel decoration: around the central body, in multicolored enamel, an ornamental frieze, divided up in rectangles which are subdivided into four triangles, each containing half a blossom, the four blossoms being painted in red, white, green, and blue; between the petals yellow dots; the frieze is accompanied by yellow lines as well as two narrower friezes each containing yellow circlets filled with the same colors as in the large frieze; the whole band is framed at bottom by a row of loosely drawn curves or shallow arcades; around the neck the date: "1596", painted in red, green, blue and white, and framed by four yellow lines as well as two applied threads which have yellow dots; below rim a gilded band (rubbed off) accompanied by two rows of white dots.
Provenance

Former Collection W. G. T. Burne

Former Collection Ralph Bernal (British, 1784-1854)
Possible former collection

Source Edwin J. Beinecke (d. 1957)