Covered Goblet

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Object Name: 
Covered Goblet
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
93.3.58
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 38.4 cm, Diam: 16 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1845-1855
Primary Description: 
Colorless, red non-lead glasses; blown, cased, cut, engraved. Colorless glass with a thin layer of ruby, conical bowl, cut in vertical panels with a rectangular panel on one side with a view of a domed, winged classical building labeled "Das Capitol zu Washington"; the other side has a circular porthole cut through the red glass to colorless, applied stem with solid knop and circular foot, stem and foot cut in panels, foot petaled and with engraved scrolls, cut with radiating lines underneath. Lid has pointed hollow knop, and is cut in panels and engraved with scrolls to match.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Brunner, Alma, Former Collection
Richards, Paul, Former Collection
Brunner, Paul, Former Collection
Schwind Antiques, Source
1993-11-12
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 28, #23, top left; BIB# 65446
Glasses Engraved with American Views (1994-07) illustrated, p. 84, pl. XIII; BIB# AI33194
Recent Important Acquisitions, 36 (1994) illustrated, p. 111, #15; BIB# AI33896
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1993 (1994) p. 6, ill.; BIB# AI95182