LIERKE, Rosemarie

JANSSENS, Koen ; DEGRYSE, Patrick ; COSYNS, Peter ; CEAN, Joost ; VAN’T DACK, Luc

Annales du 17e Congrès de l'Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre (Anvers 2006)

AIHV - University Press Antwerp, Anvers, 2009, p. 289-294

fouilles excavations sans contexte archéologique without archaeological context

[1101, 1200]

gobelet beaker

sculpté relief-cut

• ‘Hedwig-beakers’ – some characteristics:
– 13 ‘Hedwig-beakers’ are published:
- 9 with heraldic figures (eagle, lion, griffin),
- 3 with ornamental decoration.

• Arguments in favour of the Sicilian production of ‘Hedwig-beakers’:
– stylistic arguments,
– chronological, technological and historical considerations,
– additional considerations:
- shield triangles above the lions represent the triangular island of Sicily,
- star and crescent motif of the Breslau [Wrocław] beaker is similar to the crescent with three stars motif on a coin of William II of Sicily.

• Three possibilities of how the ‘Hedwig beakers’ reached central Europe:
- as a gift from William II to the Emperor Barbarossa,
- as a part of Constance’s dowry (1185),
- as a part of Henry’s booty (1194).

Allemagne Germany			consommation
Biélorussie Belarus			consommation
Hongrie Hungary			consommation
Italie Italy	Sicile Sicily		production