Large Beaker (Humpen)

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."