Goblet
1550 - 1600 (made), 1600 - 1650 (inscribed)
| Place of origin |
Mould-blown goblet with hollow stem and trupet shape foot with down-folded edge. Filigree glass. In between the filigree canes an incsribed poem, a sketch of a female leg and genitalia and a penis, drawn as an animal with a tail and on bird legs with a three letter monogram.
Object details
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | filigree glass (a retorti), mould-blowm, diamond-engraved |
| Brief description | Goblet, mouldblown filigree glass with diamond-point engraved inscription, Europe, probably southern Germany, 1550-1600 |
| Physical description | Mould-blown goblet with hollow stem and trupet shape foot with down-folded edge. Filigree glass. In between the filigree canes an incsribed poem, a sketch of a female leg and genitalia and a penis, drawn as an animal with a tail and on bird legs with a three letter monogram. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Insribed 'ist das nit ein Scherzen/Sijt dass der Scherz sind/der ergindt müssen/wenig plan wissen/der erwartet gonn'
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| Object history | Acquired at the Adrian Hope sale of old Venetian glass, old German glass & ware, antique painted Italo-Greek, Greek, and Etruscan vases, and a few specimens of antique glass, the property of Adrian Hope, Esq. at Christie, Manson & Woods, 13 July 1894. |
| Production | the inscription Southern Germany, 1600-1650 |
| Other number | 8408 - Glass gallery number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 266-1894 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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