beaker
Object NameBeaker
Made FromGlass
Date1663-1899
Place MadeGermany
TechniqueFree-blown, enameled, gilded
Accession Number57.3.155
Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionRelatively heavy clear glass with very few bubbles and a slight bluish-gray tinge; free-blown, enameled, and gilded. Straight- sided beaker, slightly tapering downwards to pushed up base with rough pontil mark, applied foot ring; enamel decoration: on the obverse, in multicolored enamel, St. George and the dragon, with St. George in armor but without helmet, on a white horse, turned to the right, and pushing his spear into the mouth of the prostrated black dragon with red wings which spits fire; at the bottom a grass strip and large grass tufts; a very large loosely drawn flower stalk with three large blossoms; the inscription flanking the saint: "ST. GEORGIUS . PATRONUS, 1663"; along the rim a gilded band (rubbed off) studded with red and blue beads, and accompanied at the bottom by a row of white beads; below grass strip a blue line and a yellow wavy line, white dashes on the foot ring; five paper labels on the base: one with a blue and white fret border has a number which is almost unrecognizable but may be 515; the second label on top is typewritten, No. 22; round label with a pencil number 515, and ink number 378; the fourth label with a printed number 9470; blue rimmed label with pencil number P A 47 and an illegible word.Provenance
Former Collection
Count Wilchek
Former Collection
Albert Pollak
Source
Edwin J. Beinecke
(d. 1957)
