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Description
Primary Description:
Transparent gold ruby. Mold-blown, engraved, cut; gilded silver mount. Cylindrical beaker with flat base. Band of gilded silver around bottom, with three feet in shape of claw, each mounted with blown hollow, ribbed ball, and with silver floral disks below. Domed cover has gadrooned silver rim. Hollow, ribbed ball finial, surmounted by disk pedestal and realistically cast eagle with spread wings. On base mount, Augsburg assay mark and indecipherable maker’s mark. Near base, band of cut ovals framed with dotted borders and foliate sprays; above, three engraved swags of fruit, each with bird. On bottom,
polished pontil mark surrounded by ring of engraved dots separated with sprigs. On cover, three engraved bunches of fruit joined by foliate sprays.
Exhibitions (3)

Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery

Drinking Glasses Through the Ages
Venue(s)
Place des Antiquaries 1987-11-18 through 1988-01-31

Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23
Publications (7)
Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 (2008)
illustrated, p. 272, #98;
BIB# 103865
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 83;
BIB# 68214
Rubinglas des Ausgehenden 17. und des 18. Jahrhunderts (revised ed.) (2001)
illustrated, p. 188-189, fig. 142;
BIB# 71682