Hunting Humpen

Hunting Humpen

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Object Name: 
Hunting Humpen
Department
European
Category
Renaissance
Place Made: 
Bohemia
Date: 
1585
Color
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colorless
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gray
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multicolored
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white
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blue
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yellow
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green
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red
Technique
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glassblowing
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enameling
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gilding
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 28 cm; Rim Diam: 13.2 cm; Foot Ring Diam: 13 cm
Accession Number: 
57.3.91
Credit Line: 
Gift of Edwin J. Beinecke
Location: 
On Display
Description
Clear glass with minute bubbles and slight grey tinge; wear marks at base; free-blown, enameled and gilded. Almost cylindrical Humpen slightly tapering at upper part, straightening out again at lip, pushed up base with rough pontil mark, applied foot ring; enamel decoration: on the body in multicolored enamel, an elaborate hunting scene, with a large white net running spirally around the vessel from top to bottom; a multitude of hounds hunting stags, deer, hares, boar, fox and bear; leaf sprays, trees, tree trunks, grass tufts, etc. fill the empty spaces; a tall hunter blowing through a horn and holding a halberd, proceeds to the left in the lower section while another smaller one, also with a spear or halberd, moves toward the left in the upper section; the scene is framed at top and bottom by four plain blue, yellow and green lines, above the upper lines the inscription: "IAEGER SAUF DICH VOLL SO LAUFEN DIR DIE HUNDE WOLL 1585." (Hunter, drink, fill yourself up then your hounds will run well.); below rim a gilded band, a scale pattern with central green beads; above a row of white beads, on the base in red: "IG 301 a".
Inscription
1585
Date
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Provenance
Beinecke, Edwin J., Source
1957
German Enameled Glass (1965) illustrated, pp. 326-327, #53; p. 115, 249, #4; BIB# 18098

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