Mug
1592 (dated)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Painted with a scene from a fable, showing a jester and an owl playing a pipe. W. H. Cope Bequest
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Enamelled glass |
| Brief description | Mug, blue glass, enamelled, Bohemia, dated 1592 |
| Physical description | Painted with a scene from a fable, showing a jester and an owl playing a pipe. W. H. Cope Bequest |
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| Style | |
| Gallery label | Painted with a scene from a fable, showing a jester and an owl playing a pipe. Cobalt was used from the 14th century to colour Bohemian glass. Christoph Schürer is credited with inventing the rich dark cobalt-blue glass produced on both the Saxon and Bohemian sides of the Ore Mountains from which the cobalt was mined. It was made in Bohemia mainly between about 1570s to 1620. |
| Credit line | W. H. Cope Bequest |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Cf. Ceske Sklo I for similar mug with fox and geese fable, Bohemian, dated 1592. Also illustrated in European glass - O. Drahotova |
| Other number | 8644 - Glass gallery number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 589-1903 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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