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Mug
- Place of origin:
Bohemia (made)
- Date:
1593 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
Blue glass painted in enamel colours
- Credit Line:
Bequeathed by W. H. Cope, Esq.
- Museum number:
590-1903
- Gallery location:
Glass, room 131, case 12, shelf 2
Physical description
Painted with a scene from a fable showing a goat and wolf.
Place of Origin
Bohemia (made)
Date
1593 (made)
Artist/maker
Unknown
Materials and Techniques
Blue glass painted in enamel colours
Marks and inscriptions
"Inscribed '1593', painted in enamel"
Dimensions
Height: 16.8 cm
Width: 11.3 cm (including handle)
Diameter: 9.7 cm
Descriptive line
Mug, Bohemia, 1593
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Cf. similar mug in Ceske Sklo I, Bohemian, dated 1592 also in European glass (described there as 1595) - O. Drahotova
Labels and date
Painted with a scene from a fable showing a goat and fox or wolf. Cobalt oxide when mixed with molten glass and cooled and ground is known as 'smalt' and can be used for glass and ceramic glazes. Christoph Schürer is credited with inventing the particular cobalt-blue glass of which this is an example, and he produced it between about the 1570s and 1610 in his works near the Ore mountains from which the cobalt was mined.
Attribution Note
dated
Subjects depicted
Goat; Wolf; Fable; Fox
Categories
Glass
Collection code
CER
