Health jar
Health glasses were in the early modern special goblets , which were used for health wishes on festivities.
Adelung defined the pieces as "large glasses, from which one tends to drink certain solemn health during Schmausereyen."
It was customary at large festivities, often many times in succession, to have a vivat on those present and absent. This custom was also called health. The cups used for this purpose were called health glasses. Sometimes it was common for the trophies to be passed on from hand to hand. The custom of different people drinking from one glass was criticized as unhealthy as early as the 1740s.
The glasses used for this had a high, pointed goblet shape. They usually had a lid called a lintel. The commissioned glassworks were instructed to produce the clearest possible glass. The cups were decorated by glass cutters. Patterns, flowers, figures and other ornaments, but also some slightly suggestive sayings were cut. Special emphasis was placed on the representation of coats of arms.
The royal courts commissioned large numbers of health glasses and they had considerable stocks, as the glasses were often broken at festivals.
Various princes created collections of health glasses. The Saxon electors had a collection in the Hofkellerei in Dresden . The Cologne Elector Clemens August von Bayern had a collection in the Indian house in the park of Augustusburg Castle .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adelung, Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect , Volume 2. Leipzig 1796, p. 641. Digitized
literature
- Walter Holzhausen : Health jars. In: Elector Clemens August. Sovereign and patron of the 18th century. Cologne 1961, p. 318