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Object NameArmorial Mug
Made FromGlass
Date1606
Place MadeBohemia
Techniquefree-blown, enameled, gilded
SizeH (at finial of cover): 29.5 cm, (at rim): 23 cm; D (rim): 8.8 cm
Accession Number57.3.102
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 extremely bubbly glass with impurities and pinkish-grey tinge; wear marks at base; free-blown, enameled and gilded. With medial mounting; body with lower part being vertical, then slightly tapering upwards, pushed up base with rough pontil mark, applied foot; applied thread below rim, applied slightly curved solid handle attached to upper and middle body; gilded silver cover hinged to upper handle with thumb piece and finial consisting of fountain-like middle support accompanied by three open work F-shaped attachments and crowned by an amphora-like finial; the cover has a decoration of onion-shaped motifs in double formation, including scrolls and berries in high relief on the lower section and engraved acanthus-like motifs in the other section; enamel decoration: on the obverse, in multi- colored enamel, the double headed eagle of the Hapsburgs with Imperial crown, holding a shield including a silver bar on a red background (for Austria) and a half shield with yellow and blue diagonals (for Burgundy); underneath the symbol of the order of the golden fleece is suspended; flanking the eagle are the shields of Bohemia (rampant lion) and Hungary (white bars and double cross) topped by crowns; above is the date: "1606"; below rim a gilded band (rubbed off) studded with two rows of blue beads and accompanied at top by a row of blue and a row of white beads, and below by the applied ring painted spirally in white and red; white dots on the foot ring; on the base an old catalogue number in red: "LG 396".


Provenance
Former Collection Margarate Oppenheim
Source Edwin J. Beinecke (d. 1957)