Armorial Goblet

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Object Name: 
Armorial Goblet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, Newcastle upon Tyne
Accession Number: 
50.2.24
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.8 cm; Foot Diam: 10.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1764
Primary Description: 
Armorial Goblet. Colorless and opaque white lead glass; blown, applied, and enameled. Large deep bucket bowl applied straight stem with opaque white threads in corkscrew twist within pair of 6-ply spirals; applied heavy sloping foot, rough pontil mark; colored enamel decoration: Coat of Arms of Charles Lowndes; on reverse, his crest above leaf sprays; gilded rim.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1950-10-01
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
colorless
white
Technique: 
glassblowing
enameling
applied
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (4)

The Decorated Glasses of William and Mary Beilby
Venue(s)
Laing Art Gallery 1980-09-05 through 1980-10-31
Title Unknown (Rich's)
Venue(s)
Rich's Inc. 1948-10 through 1948-10
 
Title Unknown (Marshall Field & Co.)
Venue(s)
Marshall Field & Co., Chicago 1947-09 through 1947-10
National antiques exposition
Venue(s)
Madison Square Garden 1947-03 through 1947-03
 

Publications (11)

In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-century British World (2020) illustrated, p. 19 (fig. 7);
Family Connections: The Formative Years of Beilby Enameled Glass, 1760-1765 (2015) illustrated, p. 190; BIB# 705329
Baroque Influences on the Form and Decoration of Glass (2014) illustrated, p. 69; BIB# 142141
Enamelling and Gilding on Glass (2013) illustrated, p. 74 (2nd from left); BIB# 142116
The Decorated Glasses of William and Mary Beilby, 1761-1778 (1980) p. 14 (#73); BIB# 22578
The Ingenious Beilbys (1973) illustrated, pp. 14-15, pl. 4; p. 62; BIB# 27395
Goblet Enameled by Beilby Shown (1944-05-05)
The Quester (1944-04-28)
Title Unknown (GN 3) (1944-01) illustrated
The Beilby Goblet (1943) illustrated BIB# 73067
English & Irish Antique Glass: Steuben Collection illustrated, p. 2; BIB# 73086