Covered Humpen

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Object Name: 
Covered Humpen
Accession Number: 
57.3.112
Dimensions: 
(a&b) H: 25.1 cm; (a) H: 18.4 cm; D (rim): 9.2 cm, (foot ring): 8.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1701-1800
Credit Line: 
Gift of Edwin J. Beinecke
Primary Description: 
Clear glass with minute and small bubbles; free-blown and enameled. (a) Cylindrical body with pushed up base having rough pontil mark, applied foot ring; (b) flanged domed cover with double knop finial; enamel decoration: on the obverse, in multicolored enamel, the coat of arms of Saxony and Poland, topped by the royal crown and flanked by standards etc., on the band above, the letters: "F. A. R. P. E. S." (Fredericus Augustus Rex Poloniae Elector Saxoniae); below rim and above foot ring a yellow and black ring around which winds a green tendril spirally and festoon-like heightened with white and black; groups of dashes on the foot ring; on the shoulder of the cover a similar tendril frieze, groups of white and yellow dashes on the flange, white dashes on the two blades on the finial.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Beinecke, Edwin J. (d. 1957), Source
Color: 
German Enameled Glass (1965) illustrated, pp. 360-361, #79; p. 205; BIB# 18098