Drinking Cup
1650 - 1675 (made)
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This seventeenth-century drinking cup has an enamelled inscription in German. It is a poem referring to drinking and sexual intercourse. The shape of the cup possibly also has a sexual connotation as the texts on all known examples of this type refer to drinking and making love.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | enamelled and gilt |
| Brief description | Drinking cup, clear brown glass with enamelled German text in white, Germany,1650-1699 |
| Physical description | Low drinking bowl in clear brown glass, with squashed sides. Ornamental bands and German text in white enamel and traces of gilding on the rim. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Acker und pflüge/ waser und krüge/ Durstige Brüder/ Zechen und leiden/ Hering und Tonnen Münich undt Nonnen/ Huren u[nd] Buben/ Rettich und Rüben Hüner und hanen/ bleibe gespane (enamelled)
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| Gallery label | Brown glass, incribed in white enamel |
| Object history | Bought from the Bernal Collection. |
| Production | Olga Drahotova was not certain, but Norbert Jopek considers inscription OK Dieter Schaich (Munich) saw this piece on 8/9/2003 during the AIHV conference in London and pointed out that there are two similar pieces in the museum at Weimar. |
| Summary | This seventeenth-century drinking cup has an enamelled inscription in German. It is a poem referring to drinking and sexual intercourse. The shape of the cup possibly also has a sexual connotation as the texts on all known examples of this type refer to drinking and making love. |
| Bibliographic reference | Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald , Venezianisches Glas der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Lingen 1994, p. 87, cat. 26-27
In Coburg there are two emxamples of this type of drinking cup. The catalogue gives further references. |
| Other number | 8651 - Glass gallery number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1837-1855 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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