Cup - With a hunting scene on the body, horseman on the bottom

Ceramics and Glass Collection

Accession Nr.: 4927
Date of production:
first half of the 18th century
Place of production: Bohemia (presumably); Germany (presumably)
Inscription: jelzetlen
Materials: double-layered glass
Techniques: 'Zwischengoldglas' decoration; faceted; glued coldly; gold foil between the layers; grinded; mould-blown
Dimensions:
height: 7,4 cm
opening diameter: 6,3 cm
base diameter: 4,3 cm

A slightly splayed, cylindrical glass, faceted into twenty sides outside. It is decorated with a hunting scene in a landscape, etched with gold foil: a pack of hounds chase deer, and a hunter fires at one. The scene is placed between two lines of acanthus leaves. The bottom shows a man on horseback, blowing a horn, etched with gold foil, against a red lacquer background.

Literature

  • Szerk.: Szilágyi András, Péter Márta: Barokk és rokokó. Az európai iparművészet stíluskorszakai. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1990. - Nr. 6.181. (Katona Imre)