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Humpen
Humpen

Humpen

Object NameArmorial Humpen with Cover
Made FromGlass
Date1700-1799
Place MadeGermany, possibly Pretzsch
Techniquefree-blown, enameled
Size(a&b) H: 21 cm; (a) H: 14.1 cm; D (rim): 7.8 cm, (foot ring): 6.7 cm
Accession Number57.3.182
Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke
Curatorial Area(s)
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionClear glass with few bubbles; free-blown and enameled. (a) Straight-sided body slightly tapering downwards, with pushed up base having rough pontil mark, applied foot ring; (b) flanged, domed cover with double knopped finial; enamel decoration: on the obverse the coats of arms of Saxony and Poland, topped by the royal crown and flanked by multicolored leaf scrolls, above the coats of arms: "F. A. R. P." (Fredericus Augustus Rex Poloniae); below rim and around lower part of body a yellow and black line around which winds a green tendril spirally and festoon-like heightened with white and black; groups of dashes on the foot ring; on the shoulder of the cover a similar tendril frieze, groups of yellow and white dashes on the flange, white dashes on the two mereses of the finial.
Provenance
Source Edwin J. Beinecke (d. 1957)