GERMAN GLASS 247
- Goblet with the Arms of Bregenz and
of Local Patricians
Southwestern German (Baden), probably
the southern Schwarzwald, after 1621-
circa 1635
Free-blown potash-lime glass with diamond-
point etching
Arms, etched in three rows across the sur
face of the vessel twenty-one shields, seven
per row, several blank, not all numbered,
(unnumbered) a patchwork of pelts, a pale
ermine-, (1) a swan with wings open; (2) quar
terly one andfour on a mount a lion rampant
holding a gem ring and two and three on a
pale three bezants', (5) an ox rampant armed;
(4) a pale three trees; (5) issuant from a mount
vert, a cross between two arms, vested, each
holding a stone; (6) quarterly one and four,
a rose and two and three lozengy in bend
sinister, on an inescutcheon and a pale the
lettering SMD in pale, sable; (7) a gem ring;
(8) an ox rampant armed; (p) a stag standing
in profile; (10) flanking a tree a goat rampant
and a man; (n) as 2; (12) as 7; (13) quarterly
one and four a bendy with tree and two and
three a chevron with three bezants; (14) a
shield tripart the florettes; (JJ) as 2 and 11;
(16) Forstmarke MS; (17) Hausmark IG Η;
(i8) a crescent between three mullets; (ip)
blank; (20) blank.
Height: ioI3Δ6 in. (27.5 cm)
Accession number 84.DK.551
PROVENANCE
Ruth and Leopold Blumka, New York.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1984," GettyMusJ 13 (1985),
no. 249, p. 256, illus.
- Tumbler {Stehaufbecher)
Central German, Franconian (possibly
Fichtelgebirge, Bishofsgrun), or northwest
ern Bohemian (Falkenau or Kreibitz), 1631
Free-blown potash-lime glass with enamel
decoration
Inscribed around the vessel wall, painted
in enamel, Drinckh mich aus undt leg mich
nid[er] Steh ich auffso vil mich wider, gib
mich deinen I nechsten wider, ich lieb was
wein ist obs gleich nicht mein ist. unndt mier
nicht wertten khan I so hab ich gliech wol
mein vreidt daran, liebt ihr mich wie ich
eich nicht mehr veger ich I von eich, vilsint
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lieblich aber nur ihr ehr vreidt mich ich lieb
eich aus hertzen Igrundt. wollt godt eur maul
unndt mein maul war ein mundt. ich lieb
eich / noch von grundt meinnes hertzen ob ich
so [lit] nicht mitt eich darffschertzn I drink
allen valschen hertzen. Ich wolt sie miesten
alle ehr hengen. I die mier undt eich nichts
ginnen.; at the end of the inscription,
dated 1631.
Height: 23 4 in. (7 cm)
Accession number 84.DK.561
PROVENANCE
Franz Ruhmann, Vienna; Hans Graf Wil-
czek, Burg Kreuzenstein; Ruth and Leopold
Blumka, New York.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alfred Walcher-Molthein, "Deutschen
Renaissanceglδser auf Burg Kreuzenstein II,"
Belvedere 9-10, no. 4 (April 1926), p. 64,
fig. 41; Tilde Ostertag, Das Fichtelgebirgsglas,
Beitrδge zur Frδnkischen Kunstgeschichte 2
(Erlangen, 1933), pl. 22a; Axel von Saldern,
German Enameled Glass, p. 149, fig. 266;
"Acquisitions/1984," GettyMusJ 13 (1985),
no. 243, p. 255, illus.
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