Beaker (Humpen)
late 17th century (made)
| Place of origin |
Humpen is the German term used at the time for large, cylindrical communal drinking vessels. They could contain several pints of beer and drinkers would pass them round the table on special occasions. The painted decoration on Humpen often refers to the owner. This one shows a huntsman named Lorentzius Junitzs at the centre of a hunt carried out with nets and dogs driving the game towards the hunter.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Blown glass, enamelled and gilt |
| Brief description | Beaker (Humpen), Germany, Franconia (Fichtelgebirge area), , 1650-1700 |
| Physical description | Large cylindrical glass beaker with enamelled hunting scenes with a huntsman, dogs and stags, a hare and a large net. Attached footrim. The bottom pused up from underneath where there is a rough puntil-mark. |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed 'Lorentzius Junitzs' (the name of the huntsman) |
| Gallery label | Painted with a hunting scene. The Fichtelgebirge is a mountain range between Upper Franconia in north-east Bavaria and Bohemia. Such glasses were mostly made at Bischofsgrün, Upper Franconia from the mid seventeenth to late eighteenth centuries. |
| Summary | Humpen is the German term used at the time for large, cylindrical communal drinking vessels. They could contain several pints of beer and drinkers would pass them round the table on special occasions. The painted decoration on Humpen often refers to the owner. This one shows a huntsman named Lorentzius Junitzs at the centre of a hunt carried out with nets and dogs driving the game towards the hunter. |
| Other number | 8630 - Glass gallery number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 5300-1901 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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