Painting another six glasses

Since I am no more the baroness of Gotvik, I have passed on the glasses and cases that I made to the next baron and baroness. Of course I have replicas of historical glasses, but ever sicne I frits saw them I have been fascinated by painted glasses from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Especially the beaker shaped ones from the High Middle Ages, I wrote about them here, with a few pictures.

 

Unfortunately I haven't found anyone who makes plain beaker shaped historical glasses, they always have some kind of decoration. I am not sure if I would have dared to harden the paint in the oven with a historical replica either, but probably.

 

Since I can't have historcial replicas to paint on I have had to make do with a substitute with reasonably the right shape: beer glasses.

The upside to this is that they are very hard to break. And you can get them cheaply from 2nd hand shops.



The motif is my badge, surrounded by flowers, which were taken from the Aldrevandini Beaker in British museum, made in Venice in the 1330s.

The arms of the Aldrevandini family also has antlers, which provided the basic shape for the ones on my glasses, which are my personal badge in the SCA.

 

 

My badge is a deer's antler with a white cinquefoil, that is a flower with five petals, om each tine. The flowers reflect my device, and I got inspired to put them on the tines of the antlers from this Codex Manesse image.

Next step is to make  box for all six glasses that will make it easy to bring them to events.