Small Covered Beaker

Object Name: 
Small Covered Beaker

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Object Name: 
Small Covered Beaker
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
German Silesia, Petersdorf
Accession Number: 
2009.3.15
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.5 cm; Foot Diam: 7.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
around 1880
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mary Lammon Nitsche and Charles G. Nitsche
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass; blown, tooled, applied with polychrome enameling. Small cylindrical beaker with cover, decorated with scene depicting seven figures, three and four men grouped around a seated figure on a throne, a bunch of lilies of the valley on the reverse side, all below the inscription: “BOEHMEN • PFALZ • SACHSEN • BRANDENBURG • TRIER • CÖLLN • MEINTZ • 1616”.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Nitsche, Charles G., Source
2009-09-02
Nitsche, Mary Lammon, Source
2009-09-02
Color: 
colorless
gold
multicolored
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
applied
enameling
Material: 
glass
enamel
gold
Inscription: 
BOEHMEN • PFALZ • SACHSEN • BRANDENBURG • TRIER • CÖLLN • MEINTZ • 1616
inscription
: 
Enameled On face of beaker above enamled decoration