Armorial jar

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Object Name: 
Armorial jar
Place Made: 
probably Bohemia
possibly Germany
Accession Number: 
57.3.110
Dimensions: 
H: 22.4 cm, D (rim): 5.4 cm, W (at base): 9.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1625
Credit Line: 
Gift of Edwin J. Beinecke
Primary Description: 
Clear bubbly glass with impurities and dark grey tinge; wear marks at base; free-blown and enameled. Straight-sided square body, probably flattened on marver, convex base with very rough pontil mark, horizontal shoulder with very short wide concave orifice; enamel decoration: on the sides two coats of arms in multicolored lily-of-the-valley stalks, all four are supposed to belong to the Kolowrat (Kolobrat) families; the one with two rampant griffins in two quarters and white and red diagonals has the letters: "C. V. R. K. M. D."; the other one with two halberds has the letters: "A. I. V. G. K. 1625".

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Beinecke, Edwin J. (d. 1957), Source
Color: 
Clear, dark grey tinge
Technique: 
free-blown, enameled

Exhibitions (1)

Bottles of the World (Sekai no hei)
Venue(s)
Suntory Museum of Art 1977-03 through 1977-05

Publications (3)

Sekai no hei (Bottles of the World) (1977) fig. 84; BIB# 32715
German Enameled Glass (1965) illustrated, p. 342, #65; p. 127; BIB# 18098
English and Continental Glass (Sotheby's Sale) (1948-06-02) #60; BIB# 10937