Humpen

Object NameArmorial Humpen with Cover

Made FromGlass

Date1700-1799

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)

Early Modern

Place Made

Germany, possibly Pretzsch

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.
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