Reichsadlerhumpen

Object NameReichsadler humpen

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1501-1600

Place MadeBohemia

Techniquefree-blown, enameled, gilded

SizeH: 31.2 cm; D (rim): 11.9 cm, (foot ring): 13.2 cm

Accession Number57.3.64

Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Not On View

Physical DescriptionClear glass with many impurities, especially at the lower section, and many small bubbles, slight grey tinge; free-blown, enameled, and gilded. Almost cylindrical body with high pushed up base having rough pontil mark and applied foot ring; enamel decoration: double headed eagle in black and white with crucifix; Christ on a green crucifix, with a green crown of thorns and yellow halos; multicolored coats-of-arms of the parts of the Holy Roman Empire; on the end of the wings two flaming symbols the upper body on the reverse the brazen serpent in blue and yellow with yellow crown on a brown cross, below rim a gilded band accompanied by four rows of red, white, and blue pearls; underneath this band: "DAS HEILIG ROEMISCH REICH MIT SAMPT SEINEN GLIDERN"; underneath for the brazen serpent the initials "L (?) S" (for Shurer ?).
Provenance

Former Collection Passavant-Gontard

Former Collection Emile Gaillard

Source Edwin J. Beinecke (d. 1957)