Beaker with a Resting Shepherd

Artist(Enameler) Johann Schaper (German, 1635 - 1670)

Dateabout 1667-70

Dimensions3 1/8 in. x 2 3/4 in. (7.9 x 7 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1950.38

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 4

DescriptionBlown glass with applied feet. Enamelled with figure reclining in countryside. Colorless glass with grayish tint, swartzlot and colored enamel decoration of shepherd and landscape; three hollow bun feet.

Published ReferencesPage, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 108-109, repr. (col.) fig. 44B, p. 109.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 173, repr. (col.).