Covered Filigree Goblet

Object Name: 
Covered Filigree Goblet

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Object Name: 
Covered Filigree Goblet
Place Made: 
Italy, probably Venice
Accession Number: 
79.3.174
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 27.7 cm; (b) Cover Diam (max): 9.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1670-1720
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Covered Filigree Goblet. Colorless, with purplish tinge; opaque white. Vetro a reticello. Goblet with cover. Conical bowl of goblet has fire polished rim and rounded base; joined by thin, colorless glue-bit and colorless merese to blown stem composed of small, flattened knop atop inverted baluster; joined by merese to shallow, blown foot with infolded rim. Domed cover with projecting flange and pontil mark inside; finial is composed of blown, slightly flattened knop between two colorless mereses; above, blown conical knop with two constrictions. Except for mereses, all parts are decorated in vetro a reticello. Below foot, inscribed “21” in white enamel.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Former Collection
1979
Schick, Viktor, Former Collection
Color: 
colorless
purple
opaque white glass
Technique: 
vetro a reticello
glassblowing
Material: 
glass