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Large Beaker (Humpen)

Date

1614

Medium

Free-blown colorless (pale blue-green) glass with diamond-point engraving

Culture

Bohemian or Silesian

Department

Decorative Arts

Institution

Getty Museum

The words *Daniel Weger 1614*, above a shield emblazoned with a crown, decorate one side of this goblet with its elaborate and high-quality engraving. On the other side, two men fight with swords, while a goblet sits on the ground behind. Above them is the obscure phrase: *You have been bothering me for a long time. Stop running around like a furrier. I think you're afraid of getting hit. That's why the glass will not come within your reach*. Diamond-point engraved glasses with satirical or moralistic scenes, of which this appears to be one, are rare. The technique of engraving glass with a diamond point was probably first perfected in Venice in the mid-1500s. Other countries were not far behind, since in 1562 one German writer recorded that people were "scratching all kinds of leafy scrollwork and beautiful flourishes with a diamond on the fine, smooth Venetian glass."

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