Beaker
ca. 1880 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Beaker, green glass, painted in colours. Straight-sided expanding slightly towards the top; high hollow foot. Painted in a rectangular panel with a man walking with a gun, in colours; the body diapered with dotted and scrolled ornament in white and red; gadroon borders in the same colours. The enamelled design shows the 'Obere' in the suit of Hawkbells from the Austrian Salzburger pattern of playing cards.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Enamelled glass |
| Brief description | Beaker, Germany, probably made by Fritz Heckert Petersdorf glassworks, 1862-1900 |
| Physical description | Beaker, green glass, painted in colours. Straight-sided expanding slightly towards the top; high hollow foot. Painted in a rectangular panel with a man walking with a gun, in colours; the body diapered with dotted and scrolled ornament in white and red; gadroon borders in the same colours. The enamelled design shows the 'Obere' in the suit of Hawkbells from the Austrian Salzburger pattern of playing cards. |
| Style | |
| Credit line | Given by H. M. Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 |
| Bibliographic reference | Berlin: Historismus |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.627-1921 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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