New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Pokal

Manufacturer Unknown

CultureBohemian

Dateca. 1725

MediumGlass

DimensionsOverall: 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm)
Overall, Rim: 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm)
Base: 3 9/16 in. (9.1 cm)

Inscribed"Lalfig binich allezeitt" in one cartouche, "in mahre lieb und einigkeit" and "vogeln ist mein tausent freidt". (Meaning "I am merry all the time in true love & unity. To catch birds give me a thousand joys".).

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.6868

Not on view

DescriptionGoblet/pokal of clear glass. Conical bowl with double spiked gadrooning in a second gather on the lower eighth of the bowl. Engraved above with three tilted cartouches. One showing a man in rural scene with a goblet and beer stein. Another with two birds on a floral branch. And a third with a man fishing with a net and two birds flying. On a solid knopped and meresed and central spike gadrooned knop stem. Plain round floral and scroll engraved foot. Metal repaired stem. Crack in lower bowl and a section of the foot is missing.