Covered Beaker

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Object Name: 
Covered Beaker
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Germany, Nuremberg
Accession Number: 
51.3.122
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.5 cm; Top Diam (max): 8 cm; (a) Beaker H: 9.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1666-1670
Primary Description: 
Covered Beaker. Colorless glass; free-blown and enameled. (a) Cylindrical form with small rough pontil mark on slightly concave base and with three applied ball feet; (b) flat-domed and flanged set-in cover with applied stemmed-ball and flattened-knop finial. Black (dark brown) enameled decoration: on obverse of tumbler, portraits -- Emperor Leopold I (at left), wearing a laurel crown and the order of the Golden Fleece, and Empress Margarethe (at right) --, below pennant with inscription "VIVAT LEOPOL DUS VIVAT MARGRITHA" and within sparse sprays of laurel with berries; on reverse, coat of arms below the inscription "HEINRICH V: ZEHRITZ"; a fly on the base; on dome of cover, circlet of leaves and berries.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Glueckselig, M., & Son, Source
1951-02-09
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
enameling
glassblowing
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
HEINRICH V: ZEHRITZ
inscription
: 
Enameled reverse black (dark brown)
VIVAT LEOPOL DUS VIVAT MARGRITHA
inscription
: 
Enameled obverse on pennant black (dark brown)

Exhibitions (1)

Heads of State
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2003-03-20 through 2003-09-01
West Bridge Show

Publications (7)

Enamelling and Gilding on Glass (2013) illustrated, p. 66 (2nd from left); BIB# 142116
Y'oroppa amerika no ant'iku garasu : shiru, kau, kataru, kansh'osura (2002) illustrated, p. 46; BIB# 74885
The Story of Crystal (1998) illustrated, 17th century puzzle; BIB# 85420
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1974) (1974) illustrated, p. 59, #70; BIB# 28793
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1965) (1965) illustrated, p. 59, #70; BIB# 27582
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1958) (1958) illustrated, p. 59, #64; BIB# 27746
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1955) (1955) illustrated, p. 48, #48; BIB# 28450