10 Piece Place Setting

Object Name: 
10 Piece Place Setting

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Object Name: 
10 Piece Place Setting
Accession Number: 
88.4.18
Dimensions: 
See Individual Records
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1893-1900
Credit Line: 
Gift of M. H. Riviere
Primary Description: 
10 Piece Place Setting. Colorless lead glass; blown, cut and engraved. (A) White wine, (B) goblet, (C) red wine glass, (D) champagne, (E) port or Madeira glass, (F) sherry glass, (G) cordial glass: bell-shaped bowl with flaring rim, tooled knop below bowl, inverted baluster stem, flat foot; bowl of each piece is cut in panels and engraved with dolphins, a fountain and scroll, engraving is polished, rock-crystal style; knop and stem of each piece is paneled and engraved with flowers, top surface of foot is cut into panels and bottom surface has engraved flowers and polished pontil mark; (H) punch cup has bell-shaped bowl, applied handle, 2 knops and domed foot and is cut and engraved to match stemware; (I) finger bowl is half-spherical with flaring rim and flat base and is cut and engraved to match; (J) ice-cream plate is circular with deep recess in center and is cut and engraved to match stemware.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Brady, James Buchanan, Former Collection
1917
Riviere, Marilynn Himes, Source
1988-05-11
Category: 
Diamond Jim Brady's Glassware (1989-10) illustrated, pp. 1, 6-7; BIB# AI23328
Recent Important Acquisitions, 31 (1989) illustrated, p. 109, #24; BIB# AI23357
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1988 (1989) illustrated, pp. 6, 21; BIB# AI96381