goblet
Object NameHunting Goblet
Made FromGlass
Date1598
Place MadeBohemia
Techniquefree-blown, pattern-molded, enameled, gilded
SizeOverall H: 25.8 cm; Rim Diam: 8.7 cm; Foot Diam: 10 cm
Accession Number57.3.95
Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Title Unknown (Schlossmuseum des Marktes Murnau)
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionClear bubbly glass with many impurities and slight grey tinge; free-blown, pattern-molded, enameled and gilded. Pedestal foot with underfolded rim and rough pontil mark, cushioned, flattened knop stem, lower body is stepped and increasing in diameter toward bulging and plain upper part tapering to flaring rim; the lower body has been patterned in a mold, with four steps or ribs; enamel decoration: on the plain upper section of the body a boar hunting scene, taking place on a slightly hilly grass strip with large grass tufts, a hunter in a blue coat and a green cap, driving a spear toward the right into a boar lying on his back, the boar being attacked by one dog while two other dogs proceeding to the left follow the first one; two trees; above the scene the date, "1598" (the one looking like a 5); pairs of yellow and blue lines on the ribs on the lower body, the last rib having a single yellow line; below rim a gilded band (partly rubbed off) accompanied by three rows of white beads.Provenance
Source
Edwin J. Beinecke
(d. 1957) - 1957
Former Collection
William Randolph Hearst
Former Collection
Reichenheim-Oppenheim
Former Collection
Margarate Oppenheim
