Covered Goblet

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Object Name: 
Covered Goblet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Germany, Nuremberg
Accession Number: 
56.3.79
Dimensions: 
(a&b) H: 37.3 cm; (a) H: 26.8 cm; D (rim): 8.9 cm, (foot): 12.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1660-1680
Primary Description: 
Transparent green and clear glass with many minute bubbles; free-blown, tooled and engraved. (a) Green wide conical folded foot with knop-like pontil mark, composite stem of clear glass consisting of an inverted baluster between groups of three mereses and two cylindrical and two flattened knops divided by single and triple mereses; (b) green set-in domed cover with composite finial of clear glass consisting of a flattened, a cylindrical and a ball knop divided by three pairs of mereses; engraved decoration: on the bowl a castle-like villa, single trees and bushes and two wanderers, on the cover a wreath of blossoms alternating with branches.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Source
1956
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
green
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
engraving
hot-working
Material: 
glass

Publications (6)

Architecture and Interior Design (1980) p. 337, ill.; BIB# 21186
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1974) (1974) illustrated, pp. 62-63, #76; BIB# 28793
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1965) (1965) illustrated, pp. 60-61, #72; BIB# 27582
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1958) (1958) illustrated, pp. 60-61, #66; BIB# 27746
Funf Westdeutsche Nachlasse, Deutscher und Auslandischer Kunstbesitz, (catalogue #446) (1956-11-14) #687, pl. 47; BIB# 9854
Kunstsammlungen F. Parpart... Versteigenrung 18-22 Marz 1912 (1912-03) #997, pl. 46; BIB# 52001