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Goblet, "Commemorative Pokal Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the 1962 Toledo Glass Workshops and Fritz Dreisbach's 30 Years of Working with Glass". Colorless, cobalt blue, manganese purple non-lead glass; some "Bondo" polymer on inside of joint for cushioning; blown with hot applications, hochschnitt (ribbon and map in relief), tiefschnitt (intaglio eagle) engraving and carving, diamond wheels and burrs, alumina and silica carbide wheels, polished with cerium oxide, pumice, wooden wheels, felt and horsehair wheels, some engraving with flexible shaft, some diamond stylus stippling and scratching, "matting" of map was done with a blend of diamond and cereum grits. Large amethyst goblet in two parts (bowl, hollow stem/foot), with overall engraving and carving (polished and unpolished); deep ovoid bowl with fire polished lipless rim; directly below rim is band of cut decoration of alternating large polished prunties and non-repeating pattern of lines and smaller prunties; bowl tapers sharply towards solid colorless ground shank that fits into hollow baluster-shaped stem with hollow conical foot; stem decorated with applied colorless decoration including ruffled and crimped wrap at top, two semi-symmetrical multiple-looped handles on upper half of stem, lower half of stem wound with snake in high relief with facet-carving to resemble scales, forked tongue, below head are shallow carved concentric circles. The decoration of the bowl is divided into four quadrants.
Exhibitions (1)

Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2005-11-17 through 2006-04-02
Corning Incorporated Gallery 2006-07-12 through 2007-01-06
Publications (10)
Contemporary Glass Vessels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2015)
illustrated, p. 24, 136-137 (fig. 30, plate 45);
BIB# 149403
Pioneers in Glass: Fritz Dreisbach's 50 Years of Blowing Glass (2014)
illustrated, p. 9;
BIB# AI98590
Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass 2012 (2011-12)
illustrated, p. 8;
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 170;
BIB# 68214
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000)
illustrated, p. 110;
BIB# 65446
The 1993 Rakow Commission: The Corning Museum of Glass (1993)
p. 131, ill.;
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