Tankard
1655 (dated)
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The enamelled decoration on this tankards shows a man and woman either side of a badge with the tools of the trade of a glazier. The man is holding a goblet and the woman a bunch of flowers. We also find the name of the man, Hanns Gasman and the year '1655'. This decorative scheme (including badges of different types of trade) is quite common on German enamelled drinking glasses and it has been proposed that they were probably gifts at the wedding or an anniversary. The glass was then used by the family of Hanns Gasman, probably for communal drinking with visitors to his house, as was customary in Germany.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Enamelled glass with a pewter mount |
| Brief description | Tankard, glass with enamelled decoration with man and wife and a badge with glazier's tools. Pewter lid. Germany, probably Franconia, 1655 |
| Physical description | Glass tankard with metal mount and lid, painted in enamels with a gentleman (holding a glass) pledging a lady (holding flowers), an inscription, date '1655' and a badge with tools of the glazier's trade, with initials 'HG'. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | HANNS GASMAN/ 1655/ Drinck mich aus unndt stürts mich umb daß ich Baltan einn andern komm/ HG (enamelled) and 'J C L' (engraved on the pewter lid). (The initials 'HG' on the badge with glazier's tools must refer to Hanns Gasman)
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| Gallery label | Painted with a gentleman pledging a lady. |
| Object history | Bought from the Bernal Collection. |
| Production | Probably made in Franconia |
| Summary | The enamelled decoration on this tankards shows a man and woman either side of a badge with the tools of the trade of a glazier. The man is holding a goblet and the woman a bunch of flowers. We also find the name of the man, Hanns Gasman and the year '1655'. This decorative scheme (including badges of different types of trade) is quite common on German enamelled drinking glasses and it has been proposed that they were probably gifts at the wedding or an anniversary. The glass was then used by the family of Hanns Gasman, probably for communal drinking with visitors to his house, as was customary in Germany. |
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| Other number | 8640 - Glass gallery number |
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| Accession number | 1882-1855 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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