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Reichsadlerhumpen

Object NameReichsadler humpen

Made FromGlass

Date1858

Place Madeprobably Bohemia

Techniquefree-blown, enameled, gilded

SizeH: 33.2 cm; D (rim): 12 cm, (foot ring): 13 cm

Accession Number57.3.65

Credit LineGift of Edwin J. Beinecke

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

Czechoslovak & Italian Glass

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Physical DescriptionClear heavy glass with minute bubbles and impurities and slight grey tinge; free-blown, enameled and gilded. Almost cylindrical body with pushed up base having rough pontil mark, applied foot ring; enameled decoration: double headed Empire eagle in black and white with yellow halos and crucifix, Christ on a green cross, on the wings the multicolored coats of arms of parts of the Holy Roman Empire; on the reverse the brazen serpent in blue on a small brown cross, on the ends of the wings two flaming symbols; green grass tufts; above: "1585"; below rim a gilded band (gold rubbed off) with rosettes in white and blue dots alternating with single blue dots, the band accompanied by two red lines and two rows of white pearls; beneath the band: "DAS HEILLIG ROMISCH REICH MIT SAMPT SEINEN GLIEDER".
Provenance

Former Collection Passavant-Gontard

Source Edwin J. Beinecke (d. 1957)