Covered Goblet

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Object Name: 
Covered Goblet
Place Made: 
Germany
Accession Number: 
67.3.9
Dimensions: 
(a&b) H: 35 cm, D (rim): 10.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1740-1760
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass; blown, engraved. (a) Ovoid bowl, with engraved and gilt complex coat of arms on the side, with lion supporters, eleven crests, and two flags, one with a double- headed eagle; on the reverse, a crowned mirror monogram "CFS", flanked by palm fronds; stem composed of two mereses, a hollow ball knop, two mereses, an inverted baluster with large air bead and swelling base, and basal disk; circular foot with engraved boarder on two sides; rough pontil mark. (b) Domed form, with engraved bands matching those on the foot of (a); folded rim, inset brim; finial composed of a baluster with large air bubble, on a merese, hollow ball knop and two mereses; rough pontil mark inside.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Henrich, Wilhelm, Source
1966
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Engraved

Publications (1)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 10 (1968) illustrated, p. 187, #42; BIB# AI97755