Joke Glass
Free-blown glass with applied decorations, and silver and silver-gilt mounts
Anonymous, German or Netherlands, 17th Century
J.P. Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Designed to be as difficult as possible to drink from without spilling the alcoholic beverage within. The tube attached to the head and terminating in the man's open nose could serve as a straw. The goal was to amuse the onlookers at the expense of the imbiber: in drinking competitions, the drinker had to guess how to drink from the vessel; if any liquor was spilled, he was required to start again with a full glass.