Unbreakable Beaker

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Object Name: 
Unbreakable Beaker
Place Made: 
Germany
Accession Number: 
58.3.213
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 13.25 cm, Diam (rim): 8.1 cm, Th:1.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1663
Primary Description: 
Transparent very thick very bubbly green glass (forest glass) light green glass with black impurities; wear marks at base; free-blown with applied and tooled decoration, and engraved. Cylindrical body with a slightly concave base and rough pontil mark, applied base ring foot; around lower section of body three rows of applied prunts, above a rigaree band; around upper section an inscription in diamond-point engraving: "Trinckh mica auff wurff mich Nider heb mich auff so vill mich wider 1663", a quatrefoil motif separates the inscription; at the base, two labels, one of which says: "MAGNIAC COLLECTION 424-2", the other: "HA-50-26".

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
Category: 
Medieval
Color: 
green
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
hot-working
engraving
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (2)

Masterpieces of Germanic Glass, 15th-19th centuries
Venue(s)
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum 1979-06 through 1979-09
East Side Winter Antiques Show
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory
 

Publications (3)

Masterpieces of Germanic Glass, 15th-19th centuries (1979) p. 21, fig. 5; BIB# 21076
Glass Through the Ages (Revised) (1959) pl. 23b; BIB# 65361
Notes and Records (GN 6) (1946-12) fig. 7, p. XV;