Hunter playing horn (tumbler)

Unknown (Bohemian)

Item type:

decorative art

Date of creation:

ca. 1725-1750

Height:

7.9 cm  (3 1/8 in.)

Diameter:

6.9 cm  (2 11/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

Double glass; boar hunt in gold leaf with acanthoid borders of silver; faceted sides

Description

A mounted hunter blows a curved horn (shown on a red background on the base of the tumbler). Zwischengold-Glas, engraved gold leaf and silver decoration between two sections of glass.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Horn [4118]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 245 da 84. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1721